Santa Maria della Passione in Milan was built in 1496 for the Order of Canons Lateran. Giovanni Antonio Amadeo drew the initial design, and Giovanni Battagio built it as a centralized Greek cross. Cristoforo Lombardo designed a large dome to replace a deteriorating earlier structure. In the late sixteenth century Martino Bassi lengthened the nave, and Giuseppe Rusnati designed the ornate facade panels depicting the Passion of Christ.
Ambrogio Bergognone painted a cycle of monumental frescoes around 1510 to 1515. The interior also holds work by Daniele Crespi, Simone Peterzano and Gaudenzio Ferrari, and two organs, one by the Antegnati family and one by Valvassori.
The adjacent monastery houses the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, with performance spaces and thousands of original musical manuscripts.
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