San Pietro in Gessate

The church has a nave and two aisles, with square-plan, groin vaulted spans, flanked by two rows of chapels.

Instead of the traditional Gothic piers, the naves are separated by Corinthian columns in granite, the sole indication in the church of the contemporary humanist revolution started in Florence by Brunelleschi and others.

San Pietro in Gessate is home to a series of paintings of the Renaissance in Lombardy.

Artists who worked here include Giovanni Donato Montorfano, Bernardino Butinone and Bernardo Zenale.

In the early 16th century Vincenzo Foppa completed for this church his famous Deposition, which later acquired by the Museum of Berlin and lost during World War II.