<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Milan" class="mw-redirect" title="Milan">Milan</a>: embossed metal (copper or bronze) plaque, formerly gilded, on the baroque "crocetta" ("little cross") in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Piazza_san_Nazaro_in_Milan&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Piazza san Nazaro in Milan (page does not exist)">Piazza san Nazaro in Brolo</a> square, a devotional monument built by a religious confraternity, one of the very few surviving in Milan out of the many such monuments scattered around Milan during the Counter-Reformation period. I guess the metal plaque portrays saint <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charles_Borromeo" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Borromeo">Charles Borromeo</a>: it was in fact him who encouraged the erection of the "crocette" and the founding of confraternities devoted to the worship of the "Holy Cross". Picture by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">Giovanni Dall'Orto</a>, February 21 2007.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">G.dallorto</a>
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<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>