Portinari Chapel

The Portinari Chapel and the campanile of Sant’Eustorgio
Interior facing east. The Annunciation is depicted above the archway which forms the entrance to the apse; the two doors to the side were only opened in 1874–75.[1]
Vincenzo Foppa, Scene from the life of Peter of Verona, south wall of the chapel. In the ‘Miracle of the Host’, the saint reveals an apparition of the Madonna and Child (note their horns) as a Devilish simulacrum.

The Portinari Chapel (Italian: Cappella Portinari) is a Renaissance chapel at the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio, Milan, northern Italy. Commenced in 1460 and completed in 1468, it was commissioned by Pigello Portinari as a private sepulchre and to house a silver shrine given by Archbishop Giovanni Visconti in 1340 containing the relic head of St. Peter of Verona, to whom the chapel is consecrated.[1][2] The architect is unknown, the traditional attribution to Michelozzo having been succeeded with equal uncertainty by attributions to either Filarete or Guiniforte Solari, architect of the apses of the Certosa di Pavia and the church of San Pietro in Gessate in Milan.

  1. ^ a b ‘Cappella Portinari’, Basilica di Sant’Eustorgio (official site).
  2. ^ Luca Beltrami, ‘The Chapel of St. Peter Martyr in the Church of Sant’ Eustorgio, Milan’, tr. by A. R Evans, in Victoria and Albert Museum, Italian Wall Decorations of the 15th and 16th Centuries: A Handbook to the Models Illustrating Interiors of Italian Buildings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington (London: Chapman & Hall, 1901), pp. 13–32 (pp. 18 and 29).