Modified form in the nave, reinforcing the vaults with strong iron tie-rods. This approach
Was foreign to the French and German masters, but it worked.
The resulting building is unlike most other Italian Gothic churches,lacking a sense of spatial openness because of the size and spacing of ist piers.The volume is enormous, and as the small clerestory windows are filled with stained light enters the nave.Windows in the choir provide brilliance, however, drawing the visitor to the liturgical center of the church. Much of the exterior is post-medieval, but the work was carried out to the very and end within the Gothic esthetic .The exterior of Milan Cathedral is a veritable forest of carved marble and pinnacles from the vantage point of the roof level,which is accessible