Point 6: Church of S.Maria by S.Satiro
Address: Via Speronari, 3
“...the temple of San Satiro, that I greatly love for being a very rich work of art, decorated with columns inside and outside, with double corridors and other ornaments, and accompanied by a wonderful sacristy full of statues.” Giorgio Vasari.
The building of the church was executed in the late 15th century due to the will of Gian Galeazzo Sforza and later continued by Ludovico il Moro as a part of an ambitious programme of renovation of the arts in the dukedom which involved, among other things, to recruit artists from all over Italy, for the Milanese Court. In fact, the building was planned according to the new Renaissance forms imported to the duchy from Donato Bramante.
The church, built by incorporating the oldest sacellum of San Satiro, is famous because it hosts the so-called Bramante’s false choir, a masterpiece of the Italian perspectival Renaissance painting.
