Reproductie van een ontwerp van het interieur van de kathedraal van Milaan before 1886

Curator: Looking at this reproduction, made before 1886, one senses the sublime echoed within the architecture of Milan’s cathedral interior. I am especially drawn to the almost tangible quality of light filtering into the nave. What’s your take? Editor: The perspective is everything! You’re right, it pulls the eye along those ribs and arches, into infinity almost. But, beyond the soaring lines, I see the visual language of ambition, literally building towards heaven! Those geometric forms repeat to build a structure of awe and spiritual yearning. Curator: Indeed, the upward thrust is practically a theological statement rendered in stone. I always wonder if these architects believed they were building a portal, of sorts? Or just a very persuasive illusion. And it works! Even now, seeing it rendered in lines and printed on paper, I still feel small. Editor: Don’t we all? The play of light and shadow here seems intentional, creating this contrast to both emphasize and dwarf. Also note the deliberate use of repeated sculptures. They remind me that Cathedrals not only embodied God's vision, but they stood as icons and testaments of faith and endurance of culture. Curator: That's the dance between mortal and divine right there, captured in ink. Funny to think that what moves me now might be radically different than what someone felt walking through this space over a hundred years ago, don’t you think? Editor: Change and permanence are ever twinned. Yet those arches still direct our eyes—a visual prayer, offered across centuries. Now that I have a closer look at these engraved sculptures and all these intricate decorations, I believe that this view, whether a reality or representation, brings some part of Milan, its historical culture, into focus and creates permanence. Curator: What a marvel to encounter! It's like the echo of human ambition forever encased within these graphic lines, urging us to consider where it might guide our future creations.