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—Tommaso da Caponago, 1448, Casa dei Panigarola, Milano In later centuries the coat of arms of Milan was sometimes embellished with the effigy of St. Ambrose. Beginning in the 16th century other ornaments such as cartouches, crowns and fronds began to appear. The gonfalon of Milan The first gonfalon of the city of Milan was a tapestry made around 1565 by embroiderers Scipione Delfinone and ...
Football club Inter Milan is commonly represented by a biscione, and the team's 2010–11 and 2021–22 away shirts prominently featured the symbol. Milan-based auto manufacturer Alfa Romeo (also known as the Casa del Biscione, Italian for "House of the Biscione" or "Biscione['s] marque") includes a biscione in its logo impaled with a red cross ...
The flag of Milan appears on the crest of Serie A side AC Milan. [4] Pro-Lombardy independence parties, Lega Lombarda and Pro Lombardia Indipendenza, both use the flag as a symbol for their movements. The logo of the car manufacturer Alfa Romeo, originally based in Milan, incorporates the cross from the flag. [5]
The Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as the Milan Cathedral (Dòmm de Milan in Milanese dialect), is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Milan. A symbol of the Lombard capital, and located in the square of the same name in the center of the metropolis, it is dedicated to Saint Mary of the ...
Standard of the president of Italy A square blue flag with the Emblem of Italy in the middle. 14 October 2000–16 January 2003 Standard of the president of Italy A square blue flag, with in the middle the flag of the Napoleonic Italian Republic, with the golden Emblem of Italy on the green square. 17 January 2003–13 April 2006
The Milan Academy of Fine Arts (Brera Academy) is a public academic institution founded in 1776 by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria; the New Academy of Fine Arts is the largest private art and design university in Italy; [262] the European Institute of Design is a private university specialised in fashion, industrial and interior design, audio ...
Milan is one of the major artistic centres of northern Italy. Its chief landmarks include: The Duomo, the world's largest collection of marble statues with the widely visible golden Madonna statue on top of the spire, la Madunina (little Madonna), the symbol of Milan. Teatro alla Scala.
When the Lombard League (1167) was created to defend the municipal liberties against Barbarossa, the communes raised a flag with a red cross on a white field, that was at the same time the flag of Milan (destroyed by the emperor in 1162), and the opposite of the loyalist cities flag (a white cross in a red field, derived from the war flag of the Holy Roman Empire). [18]