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Sant’Ambrogio in Milan. It
is dominated symbolically
by Bergognone’s The Risen
Christ (c.1491).
In the third chapel is an
interesting painting by Luini,
a Madonna with Saints Jerome
and Rocco.

Museo della Basilica
At the end of the north aisle
you come out into the Portico
della Canonica, the presbytery
portico, which was left
unfinished by Bramante (1492–
4) and rebuilt after World War II.
The Serpent’s Column, at the beginning of the nave The columns of the central arch,
sculpted to resemble tree trunks,
the kings of Italy crowned here. the Infant St John the Baptist are unusual. The entrance to the
Part of the large mosaic in the by Bernardo Lanino, who Basilica Museum, with six rooms
apse dates from the 6th and frescoed the Legend of St George featuring objects and works of
8th centuries. The scene on the on the sides (1546). The Baroque art from the church, is here.
left, a Benedictory Christ, is of chapel of the Holy Sacrament, Among the most interesting
the same period, while the one the fifth, contains the frescoes pieces are a 12th-century
on the right is the result of The Death of St Benedict by multicoloured tondo of
18th-century and postwar Carlo Preda and St Bernard by St Ambrose; a cast of Stilicho’s
reconstruction. Filippo Abbiati sarcophagus; St Ambrose’s bed;
Next to the (17th and fragments of the apse mosaics
presbytery is 18th century and four wooden panels from
the stairway respectively). In the 4th-century portal. The
to the crypt, St Bartholomew’s museum also has a Triptych by
decorated with chapel (the Bernardo Zenale (15th century)
stucco (c.1740). second) are and Christ among the Doctors
Under the the Legends by Bergognone. In the garden
Golden Altar, of Saints Vittore opposite is St Sigismund’s
an urn (1897) and Satiro (1737) oratory, already famous by 1096,
has the remains by Tiepolo, with 15th-century frescoes and
of Saints detached Roman columns.
Ambrogio, from the
Gervasio and San Vittore
Protasio. Back Sacellum; they
upstairs, at demonstrate
the end of the The Risen Christ by the cultural
south aisle is Bergognone (c.1491) openness of
the stunning San the Cistercians,
Vittore in Ciel d’Oro Sacellum, who commis sioned the work. Plaque of the Università Cattolica
the 4th-century funerary chapel The altarpiece in the second del Sacro Cuore
of the martyr, which was later chapel, The Virgin Mary with
incorporated into the basilica. St Bartholomew and St John Università Cattolica del
The 5th-century mosaics on the Baptist, is attributed to
the walls show various saints, Gaudenzio Ferrari, as is the Sacro Cuore
including Saints Ambrogio, 1545 Deposition in the next On the right-hand side of
Gervasio and Protasio. chapel, which also has frescoes the church (entrance at No. 1
by Luini on the pillars. Largo Gemelli), in the former
Benedictine monastery, is the
The South Aisle university founded by padre
The North Aisle
Returning to the entrance Agostino Gemelli in 1921. Its
in the south aisle, you will Go up this aisle from the two cloisters, with Ionic and
see the monks’ chapels, built baptistery (first chapel), Doric columns, were two
in different eras. St George’s which has a porphyry font of the four Bramante had
chapel – sixth from the by Franco Lombardi with designed in 1497. In the
entrance – houses an altarpiece the Conversion of St Augustine refectory is The Marriage at
of the Madonna and Child with (1940), the saint baptized by Cana by Callisto Piazza (1545).

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