Ercole Procaccini and The Chapel of the Crucifix in San Marco Church, Milan

The Chapel of the crucifix, also known as Chapel of the compassion, was added to San Marco Church in Milan during the XVII century. It was built in the space connecting the cloister to the church. For a long time it has been the abode of the Confraternita del Crocifisso, a main laic associations in town. In 1950 they commissioned the decoration, probably in occasion of the Jubilee. Ercole Procaccini the younger was appointed to manage a team of artists which included Giovanni Stefano Danedi (also known as Montalto), Luigi Pellegrino Scaramuccia – scholar of Guido Reni and Lanfranco, Johann Christoph Storer, from Costanza, and Antonio Busca. Decorations, paintings and frescoes are perfectly integrated and relate three principal topics: passion, death and resurrection. On the altar, where now is a copy from Caravaggio, was a wooden processional crucifix, lost between 1797 and 1802- The chapel was restored in 1996.

July 26, 2015