Ricerc@Sapienza

The Jesuit church of San Fedele in Milan preserves the inlaid choir of Santa Maria della Scala church, decorated with perspective inlays in relief, which present repetitive elements and a composition like the wooden choir of San Satiro, varying the decoration of the architectural elements and the urban landscape in the background. All the panels except one have the same decoration in pairs with very similar backgrounds, but the arrangement in the choir, which has been adapted to a different space respect to the original one, is not symmetrical. The analysis tries to reconstruct the design organization, integrating the survey of both the panels and the geometry of the wooden structure, trying to clarify the questions posed by the anomalies found, suggesting the original geometry in an unequal comparison between the digital survey and the eighteenth-century drawings of the demolished church.