The architect Francesco Maria Richini undertook major work between 1621 and 1624.
It hosted the funerary monument of Gaston de Foix [it] by Agostino Busti.
Other artists who worked for Santa Marta include Bernardino Luini, Bernardo Zenale and Marco d'Oggiono.
Another nun, Veronica Stampa, wrote a chronicle of the convent in the sixteenth century.
[5] The Oratory of Eternal Wisdom was a confraternity centred on Santa Marta in the early sixteenth century.