San Maurizio Al Monastero Maggiore, from the outside, is not a seemingly repaired building. Founded in 1503, as a female monastery with a strict clause In the middle, you can quickly see why the building was called the Sistine Chapel of the North. Here, however, different parts to the Sistine Chapel can be photographed. The church was part of a female monastery. It is divided into two parts. The first part with the altar is a place where everyone could pray, and here was the priest who celebrated the masses. The nuns themselves did not have contact with people; they were behind the wall, and the tiny iron window next to the altar served them to receive communion from the priest the communion.Around this window, there are pictures of women with palm branches. They are images of Catholic saints. Women holding palm trees is a symbolic reference to recent events in the life of Jesus, Palm Sunday, and the Resurrection, which in turn symbolises communion.
Contemporary people, unfortunately, have less fun in acroostic and symbolic riddles, which everyone would understand in those times when bulding was done. On the side is a fresco depicting the reception of a young noblewoman to the convent. Unfortunately, the truth was rather sadder than the performance, families gave their daughters to the female strict clause of monasteries, because they were paid for it. And the money was quite large, the problem of dowry and looking for a husband disappeared,expecial if you had several daughters. Sad truth about this life. Of course, some of the ladies also went there voluntarily, some lived but did not accept weddings, they were mostly sponsors of monastery. It was, however, a rarity... Today, we can also enter to the second part of the monastery.
Fresco mostly made there Leonardo da Vinci school, it is unknown whether Leonardo himself was also able to apply a brush to them. It is definitely worth paying attention to The Last Supper located here, it is almost identical to the most famous original Last Supper of Leonardo da Vinci, but this one is definitely less damaged, indeed, the master's hand is also visible here. Not sure why less appreciated. It is worth remembering that Leonardo came from Milan, here he met Cesare Borgia and started engineering work for him. Earlier, he mainly dealt with painting. A very valuable fresco is also the presentation of the last meeting of Jesus with Mary Magdalene, who begs him to stay on the ground. Jesus answered her then '' Do not stop me '', that's why this type of performance is called from Latin 'Noli me tangere ''. This meeting may also prove that legends not to the end are a lies.
From the monastery side, nuns. presented a biblical history from the old testmanent to the new one. Beautiful orginal stalls and organs appear there. Bergamini Chapel was made to commemorate Cecilia Gallerani, the famous Woman with an Ermine, Ludovico il Moro's longtime lover. Frescoes in the church were performed by, among others, Bergognone, Zenale, Bramantino (the most talented student of Leonardo). One of the chapels is a foundation of the famous family Bentivoglio.
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