- A book full of high-resolution photographs that allow you to see previously unseen details of the cathedral's frescoes and sculptural reliefs
- Slim format that can be taken along on a visit to the church
- In addition to detailed historical and iconographic explanations, there are planimetric maps that make it possible to trace the current location of all the works described in the volume
- The volume is edited by two of the leading experts on 16th-century Lombard art, university professors at the head of a team of young scholars
Santa Maria Assunta in Cremona, among the great Romanesque cathedrals of the Po Valley in northern Italy, is not only one of the most renowned for its artwork, but also one in which the slow stratification of time is most evident. The names of the greatest masters, in the first person or in the medieval sense of workshop, follow one another in quick succession: Wiligelmo, Antelami, the excellent Marco Romano, the Campionesi, enrich the fa