For the Italian comune, see Certosa di Pavia (comune).
Certosa di Pavia
Façade.
Religion
Affiliation
Catholic
Province
Pavia
Year consecrated
1497
Status
Active
Location
Location
Certosa di Pavia, Italy
Architecture
Type
Church
Style
Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
The Certosa di Pavia is a monastery complex in Lombardy, Northern Italy, situated near a small village of the same name in the Province of Pavia, 8 km (5.0 mi) north of Pavia. Built from 1396 to 1495, it was once located at the end of the Visconti Park a large hunting park and pleasure ground belonging to the Visconti dukes of Milan, of which today only scattered parts remain. It is one of the largest monasteries in Italy.
Certosa is the Italian equivalent of Charterhouse: a monastery of the cloistered monastic order of Carthusians founded by St. Bruno in 1044 at Grande Chartreuse. Though the Carthusians in their early centuries were known for their seclusion and asceticism and the plainness of their architecture, the Certosa is renowned for the exuberance of its architecture, in both the Gothic and Renaissance styles, and for its collection of artworks which are particularly representative of the region.
The CertosadiPavia is a monastery complex in Lombardy, Northern Italy, situated near a small village of the same name in the Province of Pavia, 8 km...
The CertosadiPavia Altarpiece was an oil on panel altarpiece by Pietro Perugino. It dates to around 1496 to 1500 and three of its panels are now in the...
uncle Bernabò. He was the founding patron of the CertosadiPavia, completing the Visconti Castle at Pavia begun by his father and furthering work on the...
Pavia. The city possesses many artistic and cultural treasures, including several important churches and museums, such as the well known Certosadi Pavia...
Located in Lombardy, northern Italy, it extended between Pavia Castle and the CertosadiPavia monastery. It covered an area of about 2,200 hectares (22 km2)...
Maffioli, then the Buffa, supplied the marble for the facade of the CertosadiPavia, also taking care of the transport of the material which, by ship,...
construction site intended exclusively for the Visconti dynasty: the CertosadiPavia. Work proceeded quickly, and at the death of Gian Galeazzo in 1402...
1520-22), Museum of the CertosadiPavia. Saint Martin (c. 1520-22), Museum of the CertosadiPavia. Female portrait (1521-23), Pavia Civic Museums. Frescoes...
built in the CertosadiPavia and confirmed all the privileges granted by his predecessors to the monastery, thus exploiting the Certosa as a link between...
term comes from Carthusian monasteries (Certosa in Italian, Charterhouse in English), probably the CertosadiPavia, where the technique was used in ornamenting...
to his daughter. Filippo Maria Visconti, who had become nominal ruler of Pavia in 1402, succeeded his assassinated brother Gian Maria Visconti as Duke...
Burgundian School. His fame is principally associated with his work at the CertosadiPavia complex, composed of the church and convent of the Carthusians. It...
Palazzo Schifanoia for Borso d'Este. In Milan, under the Visconti, the CertosadiPavia was completed, and then later under the Sforza, the Castello Sforzesco...
Madonna and Saints for the Certosa of Pavia, now disassembled and scattered among museums: the only portion in the Certosa is God the Father with cherubim...
Perspectives on a Centuries-Old Debate about Identity and Migration". In Di Cosmo, Nicola (ed.). Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome...
del Mangano is a frazione and the seat of the municipality of the CertosadiPavia comune. The comune bore the name of Torre del Mangano until 1929, when...
the CertosadiPavia. Despite being called "da Venezia", there is no evidence of any activity in Venice. It is mentioned for the first time in Pavia in...
the main Lombard construction sites: the cathedral of Milan and the CertosadiPavia. Methane was first discovered and isolated by Alessandro Volta as he...
whilst employed extensively on work at the Milan cathedral, and at the CertosadiPavia. In 1490 he accompanied his brother to Venice, where he seems to have...
CertosadiPavia. Gian Galeazzo Visconti, hereditary lord and first Duke of Milan, first commissioned Solari as a chief architect of the Certosadi Pavia...
Venice that are also undated. In 1490 he painted an altarpiece for the CertosadiPavia showing the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saint John the Baptist...
Ghibellines was raised against the Duke when Facino Cane was terminally ill in Pavia, and Gian Maria was assassinated in front of the church of San Gottardo...
ultramarine The Wilton Diptych (c. 1395–1399) Unknown artist Detail from the CertosadiPavia Altarpiece (c. 1496–1500) Pietro Perugino Het melkmeisje (1658) Johannes...
A nineteenth century depiction of Attila. CertosadiPavia – Medallion at the base of the facade. The Latin inscription tells that this is Attila, the...
either Filarete or Guiniforte Solari, architect of the apses of the CertosadiPavia and the church of San Pietro in Gessate in Milan. The Portinari Chapel...
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