The Church of St Maurice in Milan
The monastery was founded in the Carolingian era, and included a church building that was much older, but the current church was begun in 1503. It is divided into two parts, one for the faithful and another for the nuns, who were quite strictly enclosed. By 1509, the basic structure of the church was completed, and the decoration of the church and its many side-chapels began, mainly through the patronage of the Bentivoglio family, four of whose daughters entered the convent, and other families associated with them. The painting of the church would continue though the rest of the 16th-century; the result is an impressive, if somewhat uneven, collection of frescoes, beginning with the disciples of Leonardo Da Vinci, chief among them Bernardino Luini, continuing through the early Mannerists, and completed at the end of the 1570s with the façade, the frescoes on the counterfaçade, and the main altarpiece for the nave of the public church, by Antonio Campi.
The altar of the public church, with frescoes by B. Luini surrounding the altarpiece of the Adoration of the Magi by Antonio Campi. |
Noah’s Ark by Aurelio Luini, Bernardino’s son, 1556 |
The nuns’ choir |
The Deposition from the Cross, by Callisto and Fulvio Piazza, 1555 |
St Benedict, by an unknown follower of Luini, |
Adam and Eve, also by Aurelio Luini |
Ss Benedict, Maurus and Placid. |
Source: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2016/02/the-church-of-st-maurice-in-milan.html
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