The Cathedral of Cremona, the main sacred building of the town, is the
outcome of the religiousness and faith of several generations having
identified itself and
represented the town and its social
community in it; as a proof of this the façade of the Cathedral is used
as a symbol of the town in the 13th century town seals, while during the
Middle Age this symbolic function was usually attributed either to the
image of the patron saint or to the façade of the Town Hall. For the
Cathedral of Cremona and for its thousand and more craftsmen, from the
famous artist to the unknown mason or stone-cutter, the following
sentence by the great scholar Giulio Carlo Argan holds good: "
a
Romanesque cathedral, with its pictorial and plastic display, is rarely
the work of only one generation, and it is never the expression of a
single creative personality. It is instead the creative and choral
expression of a society that does not want to define itself only in the
present, but also in the past preceding it and in the future preparing
it. The generation inheriting the monument, being this completed or not,
venerates in this monument their fathers' work and wants to hand it
down to their sons together with their mark".
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