Chapel 19 - Jesus enters Jerusalem

It depicts Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on a donkey in the midst of the crowd that celebrates him by laying down fabrics and throwing olive branches and palm tree branches to cheer his arrival.
The representation of this episode was called for together with that of the other stages of the public life of Jesus (from Baptism to the Entry into Jerusalem) in the Book of Mysteries by Galeazzo Alessi (1565-1572), from which the model  for the preparation of the group of statues attributed to the sculptor Bartolomeo Badarello from Campertogno was also taken.
The structure was built between 1578 and 1583; at that date in the space there was also the group of statues. The paintings show the style of artist Giovanni Battista della Rovere also known as "il Fiammenghino".  On orders of the bishop Carlo Bascapè after 1594 other sculptures were added, made by Michele Prestinari.
Between 1721 and 1722, sculptor Giuseppe Arrigoni from Milan rebuilt the two statues in the foreground, while Pietro Borsetti frescoed two apostles on the fake door on the right. A century later (1817) Giovanni Avondo added other painted figures in the space of the fake door on the left.