Milano, Italy

Santa Maria presso San Satiro

Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milano

A modest Renaissance church hiding one of art's great optical tricks. Bramante had only a metre of space for the choir, so he painted and sculpted a deep, vaulted apse that does not exist, fooling the eye for more than five centuries.

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Location

Coordinates: 45.46264722, 9.18803333

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