San Marco, Milan

San Marco is a church in Milan, northern Italy.

History

According to tradition, the church was dedicated to

In early 1770, the young Mozart resided in the monastery of San Marco for three months^[1] and, on May 22, 1874, the first anniversary of the death of the Milanese poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni was commemorated in the church by the first performance of Verdi's Requiem, written in his honour.

Organists at the church have included Ruggier Trofeo.^[2]

Art and architecture

The façade dates from an 1871 restoration by Carlo Maciachini, who kept the marble portal with tympanum, a gallery of small arches, the rose window and three statues of saints attributed to Giovanni di Balduccio or the Master of Viboldone. In the lunette is a mosaic representing the Madonna between Saints, a copy of the original by Angelo Inganni.

The

In the first chapel on the right are frescoes by

Near the rear exit is a 16th-century tombstone portraying the Angel of the Resurrection, another fresco by the Fiammenghini (under which is a 14th-century fresco). On the side walls of the presbytery are frescoes depicting Dispute of St Ambrose and St Augustine by Camillo Procaccini and the Baptism of St. Augustine by Giovanni Battista Crespi.

Gallery

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  Pope Alexander IV institutes Augustinian Order (fresco) by Fiammenghini (and partially revealed older Crucifixion fresco)
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  Bell tower of San Marco.
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  Madonna with Saints by Gian Paolo Lomazzo.
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  Wax statuette, in the fashion of the 19th century, of Holy Child Mary, Left transept.

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