Church of Saint Maurizio at Major Monastry

History of Saint Maurizio Church and his pictorial decorations
In maximum part the church of St.Maurizio at Major Monastery is a GianGiacomo’s Dolcebuono works, and finished by Solari. It was built in 1503, on an ancient church ruins annexed at the Monastery of Benedictines. The monastery was broadly demolished in 1799.
The façade is all dressed in Ornavasso’s grey stone and contrasts with inside decoration rich of golds and frescos.
The unique nave results bipartite between the environments destined to the claustral functions, the nuns’ choir, and those public, the laymen’s church. From Luini Street is accessed the choir, from Magenta Course is accessed to the church.
The church of St.Maurice is absolutely to visit: to enter to it is as to open a small casket.
The church is rich of frescos and pictures and to remain enchanted to admire so much artistic shine: the pictorial decoration of a church was ever married so happily with its architecture. Take you all time necessary to admire all is this beauty.
Paintings of Bergognone and exponents of first XVI century, you can find it in the choir, while in the chapels there are Lomazzo’s frescos and Anotnio’s Campi paintings. In the third chapel the famous jewel of Bernardino Luini with famous paintings, Histories and Martyrdom of St.Caterina Of Alexandria beheaded in Castle Square in 1526 for false, infamous accusations of adultery,
With Luini’s dead, the work decoration of other chapels and antifaçade continued for whole XVI century with his children Aurelio and Giovan Piero Luini and other artist as Callisto Piazza, Ottavio Semino and Simone Peterzano
the Church offers another stupendous emotions: the roundels in the open gallery with the figures of Saints and Martyrs attributed to Giovanni Boltraffio.