Chiesa di Santa Maria Incoronata

Chiesa di Santa Maria Incoronata is a Milanese church whose story is written in dates of dynastic power and religious renewal, and it was completed in 1460. The older structure existed as early as the communal era and was dedicated to St. Maria di Gargnano; in 1400 an Augustinian convent was annexed, and the fabric was restored in late Gothic style. In 1451, around the election of Francesco Sforza as duke of Milan, the new church takes its present name—“St. Mary Encrowned”—linked to that political turning point. Duke Francesco’s wife, Bianca Maria Visconti, then commissioned in 1460 a second, identical church beside the first, connected so the two paired buildings functioned as one larger edifice. …

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