Museo San fedele
The Museo San Fedele turns a Renaissance church into a living argument for how art and faith can meet without cancelling each other. It unfolds across the sixteenth-century Chiesa di San Fedele in Milan and the surrounding rooms—covering spaces such as the seventeenth-century crypt, the sacristy, and the chapel known as “delle ballerine.” The museum opened on 31 December 2014, after ten years of restorations. Its impulse traces back to the Jesuit Galleria San Fedele, launched in the 1950s under the direction of Padre Arcangelo Favaro, who pushed for dialogue between art and belief—an idea later taken up by Pope Paul VI in a 1964 speech to artists. Inside the church, you can still find Lucio Fontana’s altarpiece, “Il Sacro Cuore,” commissioned by Favaro in 1956. …
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