San Bartolomeo, Milan

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San Bartolomeo is a 19th-century, Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.[1][2]

History

The architect Maurizio Garavaglia designed the present structure in 1864, replacing a church from 1500s of the same name located a nearby site. An engraving of the former church by Marc'Antonio Dal Re exists.[3] The prior church had an icon depicting the Madonna del Buon Aiuto (Our Lady of Good Help), originally attributed to Lucas Cranach, donated by Countess Teresa Gordone Serbelloni when the Ottoman army was nearing the Siege of Vienna. That church accumulated a number of tombs of the aristocracy. The church was the site of disturbances during riots occurring in 1848. That older church was demolished during urban renewal, in the second half of the 19th century.

The church contains a neoclassic Monument to Karl Joseph von Firmian, who was plenipotentiary of Austrian Lombardy. The tomb sculpted by Giuseppe Franchi; it was restored after removal by French troops during the Napoleonic occupation.[4]

References

  1. 1."Chiesa San Bartolomeo 🇮🇹". GCatholic. Retrieved 2026-04-30.
  2. 2."Parrocchia di San Bartolomeo". www.sanbartolomeomilano.it. Archived from the original on 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2026-04-30.
  3. 3.Re, Marc'Antonio Dal (1743). Maisons de plaisance, ou, Palais de campagne de l'êtat de Milan: divisez en six tomes où l'on voit leurs plans & leurs diverses perspectives gravés & imprimés par Marc-Antoine DalRè boulonois (in Italian). Alla piazza de' Mercanti nel portico superioire delle Scuole palatine.
  4. 4.Caini, Antonio (1862). Delle arti del designo e degli artisti nelle provincie di Lombardia dal 1777 al 1862: Memoria di Antonio Caimi ... deltata nell'occasione della esposizione universale di Londra del 1862 (in Italian). Luigi de Giacomo Pirola.