The façade of the Certosa was commissioned by Ludovico il Moro beginning in 1492. Designed and constructed under the supervision of the Pavian architect and sculptor Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, it was built of marble from Carrara, near Pisa. The façade is divided and subdivided into windows and other openings - rectangular, arched or round, and single, double, and quintuple - and enriched with sculptural reliefs.

The terracotta decoration of the two cloisters in the Certosa was carried out during the 1460s by a group of artists of whom the most prominent was Cristoforo Mantegazza. The young Amadeo worked as a modeller in terracotta on the spandrel decoration of the Small Cloister.

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	View of the façade 1490s Marble Certosa, Pavia	1600*1171 True Color 253 Kb
	View of the façade 1490s Marble Certosa, Pavia	1800*1350 True Color 290 Kb
	View of the façade 1490s Photo Certosa, Pavia	1232*1000 True Color 208 Kb
	Façade of the church (detail) 1490s Marble Certosa, Pavia	1061*1400 True Color 252 Kb
	Façade of the church (detail) 1490s Marble Certosa, Pavia	1600*1067 True Color 285 Kb
	Façade of the church (detail) 1490s Marble Certosa, Pavia	1800*1350 True Color 256 Kb
	Façade of the church (detail) 1490s Marble Certosa, Pavia	1800*1350 True Color 261 Kb
	Detail of the façade 1490s Marble Certosa, Pavia	1200*900 True Color 287 Kb
	Detail of the façade 1490s Marble Certosa, Pavia	933*1400 True Color 246 Kb
	Detail of the façade 1490s Marble Certosa, Pavia	1400*933 True Color 250 Kb
	Detail of the façade 1490s Marble Certosa, Pavia	1165*1165 True Color 204 Kb
	Detail of the façade 1490s Marble Certosa, Pavia	1371*1400 True Color 283 Kb
	View of the Small Cloister 1460s Marble Certosa, Pavia	992*1263 True Color 259 Kb
	Spandrel decoration of the Small Cloister (detail) 1460s Terracotta Certosa, Pavia	1067*1600 True Color 288 Kb
	Doorway c. 1466 Marble Certosa, Pavia	830*1200 Grayscale 253 Kb