Joseph's Second Dream
The scene represents Joseph's second dream: an angel warns him to flee to Egypt, to escape the massacre of children wanted by Herod.
The chapel was set up and decorated internally towards the end of the sixteenth century, faithfully following the instructions contained in the Book of Mysteries by Galeazzo Alessi.
The frescoes, representing the flight into Egypt and the landscape, are attributed to an artist who also worked for the church of San Marco, in Varallo, around 1563. He was influenced by the Gaudenzian model, as well as by the Milan Mannerist culture of Aurelio Luini.
The Virgin Mary and Child in terracotta was shaped by Gaudenzio Ferrari for the ancient house of Loreto (now chapel 2). The statues of the angel and Joseph are by an unknown Lombard artist, and were completed in 1578.
In the atrium, the frescoes depict the adoration of the golden calf and Moses breaking the Tables of the law.