Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa
Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa stands on Via Neera in Milan as a neo-Romanesque church completed in 1932. Giovanni Muzio shaped its Latin-cross plan, bare walls and solemn interior around a barrel-vaulted nave, a single apse and a wooden transept ceiling with exposed trusses.
Dan Flavin’s permanent installation brings colour into this restrained setting: blue and green neon tubes fill the nave, red light marks the transept and gold light highlights the apse. Completed in 1997, the arrangement recalls Byzantine mosaics while tracing the passage from dawn to dusk. Giacomo Manzù’s San Giovannino, Giacomo Munster’s Madonna and relics of Blessed Carlo Gnocchi and Carlo Acutis add sculpture, devotion and memory.
The Mascioni organ replaced an earlier Costamagna instrument and carries baroque influences through mechanical transmission.
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