Description
The Church of Santa Maria del Carmine is a large Gothic church in Brera, in the center of Milan, on Piazza del Carmine. The terracotta facade with its big rose window looks medieval, but it is a Gothic Revival remake by Carlo Maciachini from 1880.
Inside, the three naves with cross vaults rest on round piers that alternate terracotta and stone. The Baroque Chapel of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, by Gerolamo Quadrio, has paintings by Camillo Procaccini, who also painted the Saint Charles in Prayer of 1585 in the Spaniards' Chapel. On the Neoclassical high altar, marbles of many colors gleam.
The Carmelites arrived here in 1268; today's church, rebuilt after a fire, was finished in 1446, but the vault collapsed soon afterward. On the square stands Il Grande Toscano, a bronze by Igor Mitoraj. The church is also the parish of the English-speaking community and of the Filipino community.
Inside, the three naves with cross vaults rest on round piers that alternate terracotta and stone. The Baroque Chapel of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, by Gerolamo Quadrio, has paintings by Camillo Procaccini, who also painted the Saint Charles in Prayer of 1585 in the Spaniards' Chapel. On the Neoclassical high altar, marbles of many colors gleam.
The Carmelites arrived here in 1268; today's church, rebuilt after a fire, was finished in 1446, but the vault collapsed soon afterward. On the square stands Il Grande Toscano, a bronze by Igor Mitoraj. The church is also the parish of the English-speaking community and of the Filipino community.