Description
Santa Maria della Passione is a large Renaissance church in the center of Milan, on Via Conservatorio, a short walk from the Palace of Justice. Outside it has a Baroque facade with reliefs of the Passion of Christ; inside it is almost a picture gallery, beneath a dome whose octagonal drum is decorated in terracotta.
The masterpiece is the Last Supper by Gaudenzio Ferrari, in the left transept, still in its original gilded frame: Vasari praised it, noting that the painter's death left it unfinished.
Also worth seeing are The Fasting of Saint Charles by Daniele Crespi, the two organs facing each other on either side of the presbytery and, in the chapter house, Bergognone's frescoes of Christ, the apostles and a vault painted as a starry sky.
Daniele Birago founded it in 1485 as a centrally planned building; in 1573 Charles Borromeo had the naves added, better suited to preaching. The old convent now houses the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory.
The masterpiece is the Last Supper by Gaudenzio Ferrari, in the left transept, still in its original gilded frame: Vasari praised it, noting that the painter's death left it unfinished.
Also worth seeing are The Fasting of Saint Charles by Daniele Crespi, the two organs facing each other on either side of the presbytery and, in the chapter house, Bergognone's frescoes of Christ, the apostles and a vault painted as a starry sky.
Daniele Birago founded it in 1485 as a centrally planned building; in 1573 Charles Borromeo had the naves added, better suited to preaching. The old convent now houses the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory.