Chiesa di San Bartolomeo
The Chiesa di San Bartolomeo is a Roman Catholic church in Milan, built in 1864 to a design by Maurizio Garavaglia. It replaced a sixteenth-century church nearby, demolished under urban renewal in the latter half of the nineteenth century. What you see today is a work of neoclassical design.
The demolished predecessor carried its own treasures: an icon of the Madonna del Buon Aiuto, attributed to Lucas Cranach. Countess Teresa Gordone Serbelloni donated it during the Siege of Vienna. The present church features a monument to Karl Joseph von Firmian, the plenipotentiary of Austrian Lombardy, sculpted by Giuseppe Franchi. The Napoleonic occupation saw it removed, and restoration later brought it back.
Inside, the church keeps a sober aesthetic, largely without extensive art. That spareness lets the few existing pieces stand out prominently. Adrian Paci's photographic Via Crucis is one of them, offering a contemporary reflection on the traditional Christian narrative. The oldest story inside now arrives in photographs.
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