The Cathedral of Cremona

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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