Location Milan, Italy Architectural type Church Phone +39 02 8635 2231 Affiliation Catholic Church | Status Active Opened 1579 Province Province of Milan Architect Pellegrino Tibaldi | |
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Address Piazza S. Fedele, 4, 20121 Milano, Italy Architectural styles Renaissance architecture, Mannerist style Similar Museo San Fedele ‑ Itinerari di, Santa Maria presso S, San Sepolcro - Milan, Santa Maria della Passione, San Carlo al Corso | ||
San Fedele is a Jesuit church in Milan, northern Italy. It is entitled to St. Fidelis of Como, patron of the Catholic diocese of Como.
Located in Saint Fedele Square in the centre of the city, near the Palazzo Marino, the Teatro alla Scala and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the church was commissioned by Charles Borromeo from Pellegrino Tibaldi (1559).
Description
The interior is on a single nave, with tall columns in granite. The presbytery was prolonged in the 17th century by Francesco Maria Richino, who also designed the notable sacristy.
The interior is decorated with artworks that include a Pietà by Simone Peterzano, a St. Ignatius by Giovanni Battista Crespi (il Cerano) and a Transfiguration, by Lucio Fontana. A Madonna of the Snake by Ambrogio Figino, once found in the church, is now in the church of Sant'Antonio Abate of the city.