Santa Maria della Scala, Milan

Santa Maria della Scala was a church dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and located in the center of Milan.

[2] The church's construction began on September 7, 1381, with the groundbreaking ceremony attended by Regina Della Scala, the Milan archbishop Saluzzo, and the Visconti court.

[15] A fresco of the Virgin and Child was detached from the wall and transferred with other paintings on wood and sculptures to the church of San Fedele.

The church's façade would have fronted Largo Antonio Ghiringhelli, where the entrance to the Scala Theater Museum stands.

Among these, the most important are a fresco of the Virgin with Child and two paintings: a Transfiguration by Bernardino Campi and a Deposition by Simone Peterzano, a pupil of Caravaggio.

A statue of a lying bishop, part of a funeral monument made by Bambaia, can be visited at the nearby San Fedele Museum.

Fresco of Virgin and Child, now in the church of San Fedele