Chapel 1 - Adam and Eve or the Original Sin

Built between 1565 and 1567 on a project by the architect Galeazzo Alessi, the chapel is dedicated to the Original Sin, cause and origin of the incarnation of Jesus and the story of Salvation.
A first group of statues was already present in 1578 and then modified several times. Between 1593 and January 1595, Bishop Carlo Bascapè ordered the addition of new figures of animals and the restoration of the figures of Adam and Eve to Michele Prestinari, an artist who had already worked at the Milan Cathedral.  However, the bishop was not satisfied with Adam and Eve and so he ordered the sculptor Jean de Wespin, also known as "il Tabacchetti", to sculpt a third and final couple, completed around the year 1599, still considered unsatisfactory because of the"lascivious" look. Thus, the bishop ordered to hide the nudity "through some skilled artifice".
Between 1583 and 1586, Vincenzo and Gerolamo Mangone, also known as "Moietta", worked on the stucco decorations that separate the painted compartments of the internal walls and worked on the stuccoes that adorn the vault of the arcade, whose paintings were made by Giovanni Battista della Rovere also known as "il Fiammenghino".  
Other sculptures of animals were added by Giuseppe Antonini during the restoration of the chapel (1883-1886), whose walls were entirely repainted by Francesco Burlazzi (1886).