Santa Maria della Sanità also known as dei Crociferi, is a late-

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or Rococo style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Durini #19 in Milan, in the region of Lombardy in Italy.

History

The church was commissioned by the Camillian order, who were also known as the ''Crociferi'', and design of the church with its five chapels was originally by

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. The undulating facade, described as a ''violoncello'' and with a roofline in the shape of the late 18th century marshal's

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, was designed by

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. The facade remains in brick, and never finished with marble decoration. The adjacent Collegio of the Camillians was privatized when the order was suppressed in 1799 and is now divided into apartments. Inside the church,

Ferdinando Porta Ferdinando Porta (1689–1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque. Born in Milan. The engraver Francesco Londonio was one of his pupils. He painted frescoes in the Palazzo Brentano, Corbetta The Palazzo Brentano is a late Baroque palac ...

painted the ''St Joseph in Agony'' and

Pietro Maggi Pietro Maggi (Milan, circa 1680 - Milan, before 1738) was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque period. Biography He was influenced by Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (died 1702) but studied and worked with Filippo Abbiati. Together they painted fre ...

painted the ''Assumption of the Virgin'' in the choir.Nuova Guida di Milano
Francesco Pirovano, Tipografia Giovani Silvestri, Milan, (1822), Page 110.

References

Roman Catholic churches completed in 1708 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Maria della Sanita Maria della Sanita 1708 establishments in Italy {{Italy-RC-church-stub