Marta Maria Gabriella Pozzi

Starting from the investigation of the most ancient sources concerning the basilica of Sant’Eustorgio, the article casts light on the historical problems of the patronage of the chapel between the Torriani and Visconti families and focuses on its transfer from Duke Filippo Maria to Giorgio Aicardi. During the dissertation it is revealed how the initiative of the fifteenth century re-qualification of the sacellum should be plausibly collocated within the ambit of Filippo Maria’s commissions and that it should be related particularly to the Duke’s interest in the church of Sant’Eustorgio in the early twenties of the Quattrocento and in 1438...