page_title: Beata Vergine Assunta, San Giorgio su Legnano
section_title: Artistic works
hierarchical_section_title: Beata Vergine Assunta, San Giorgio su Legnano / Artistic works
caption_attribution_description: English: Parish Church in San Giorgio su Legnano (Italy) Italiano: Chiesa parrocchiale a San Giorgio su Legnano
context_page_description: Beata Vergine Assunta is the parish church of San Giorgio su Legnano, a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Milan, in Lombardy. Dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, it was consecrated on April 23, 1935. It has a Neo-Renaissance style and is characterized by a central plane of Bramante derivation.
context_section_description: In the church there is an ancient neoclassical altar of the mid-nineteenth century once used in the old parish church of the Beata Vergine Assunta. It is located in a side chapel, in the so-called Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, which is located to the left of the main chapel. The displacement of this altar was one of the consequences of the Second Vatican Council which foresaw, among other things, a liturgical reform that sanctioned the displacement of the altars in the direction of versus populum (en. "Towards the people"), or on faithful side: until then all the sacred tables were in fact oriented versus Deum (in it. "towards God"), or on the opposite side, in the direction of the Holy Land, with the priest facing east and with the faithful behind.
  The main altar was made in 1973 by the sculptor Gino Casanova following the dictates of the Second Vatican Council. It consists of a single block of yellow-roan marble that weighs 12 tons and that has dimensions 3 x 1.40 x 1 m. Along its perimeter some episodes from the life of Jesus are depicted: frontally the Crucifixion of Jesus, the Resurrection of Jesus and the Ascension of Jesus while laterally the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple and some scenes concerning the apostles. On the back are carved The Wedding at Cana, the Raising of Lazarus and the Miraculous catch of fish.
  Among the works in the side chapels, an eighteenth-century altarpiece by Biagio Bellotti stands out, representing Bernardino of Siena and which was once kept in the old parish church. The organ, which dates back to 1850 and was built by the Portinari family from Magenta, also comes from the old church of the Beata Vergine Assunta.
  On the pillars there are 14 bronze panels from 1935 that depict the Via Crucis. The floor, which was built between 1942 and 1943, consists of marble tiles that form a mosaic connected to the Marian symbolism. The baptistery was decorated in 1966 with a mosaic style recalling Fra Angelico.
  On the apse there is a mosaic made up of 700,000 pieces and made in 1975 by the painter Mario Cornali of the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo and of the mosaicists Toniutti brothers of Bollate which depicts Jesus, Mary and eleven saints during the apocalypse. Among the saints, there are saint Peter, saint George, saint Francis, saint Rita and Pope John XXIII.
  The entrance door, which is from 1981, was built by the sculptor Ferrari of Ponte di Legno. The door is in iron and steel covered with bronze panels: the external part is decorated with representations that represent scenes of life of Mary. In the same year are the six copper panels that are placed inside the building and represent as many biblical scenes: the Baptism of Jesus, The Wedding at Cana, the evangelical beatitudes, the Healing the paralytic at Bethesda and the Samaritan woman at the well.
  The windows of the dome and chapels are from 1984. Those of the chapels, which are made of shatterproof glass and which were made by the Grassi company in Milan with the technique of the "great fire", represent the symbols of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church. The seven round glass windows of the dome are in glass-cement and have a geometric design created on the design of the painter Normanni.
  The mosaics of the walls that are located above the side chapels and the main entrance were made from 1985 to 1987 by the mosaic artists, the Toniutti brothers, based on a design by the painter Fumagalli. The spaces that house the mosaics consist of a main frame and two smaller side panels. They represent, starting from the right of the high altar, the appearance of the risen Jesus to the Mary Magdalene, the Crucifixion of Jesus, saint Bernardino, the coming of Christ at the end of the world, the baptism of Jesus, the Assumption of Mary and the Last Supper.
  The main dome, which has an area of 1,400 square meters, was painted from 1999 to 2000 by the artist Valentino Vago di Barlassina with scenes from the apocalypse.
caption: The "cave" of the church of the Blessed Virgin of the Assumption
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