Chiesa di Santa Maria Bianca della Misericordia

Chiesa di Santa Maria Bianca della Misericordia stands in Milan’s Casoretto district as a fifteenth-century church with a brick façade and Romanesque cloister. Pietro Tanzi founded the church during the fifteenth century. An earlier chapel occupied Tanzi’s suburban estate before construction began, linking the site to canons from Lucca. At least six canons served there under Lucca’s authority.

The Solari family, particularly Guiniforte Solari, contributed to the building, whose bell tower stood complete by 1490. That building phase flourished under Sforza rule in Milan. Sixteenth-century changes turned the side naves into chapels and altered the transept. Those changes reshaped the original three-nave plan.

Inside, you find a Virgin fresco attributed to a Lombard master and a Resurrection triptych linked possibly to Bergognone or Ambrogio Bevilacqua. White clothing gives the fresco its distinguishing detail. Restorations in 1927 and the mid-twentieth century preserved the fifteenth-century façade and surrounding historical fabric. The Romanesque cloister keeps numerous tombstones in its courtyard.