San Sigismondo, Renaissance church in Cremona, Italy.

San Sigismondo is a church in Cremona with a Latin-cross plan, a single nave and six chapels on each side. Its façade is divided into two storeys by an entablature on four Doric columns, topped by a tympanum and five small spires; the octagonal bell tower ends in a cylindrical upper section. The interior was frescoed from 1535 by Camillo Boccaccino, Giulio and Bernardino Campi and Bernardino Gatti.

The church was founded in 1463 to celebrate the marriage between Bianca Maria Visconti and Francesco Sforza and mark a power shift in Milan. Over the 16th century, it was filled with artistic works that reinforced its importance as a commemorative site.

The name comes from the small church already dedicated to Saint Sigismund, a Burgundian king, on the site where Bianca Maria Visconti married Francesco Sforza on 25 October 1441. The monastery was entrusted to the Hieronymite monks and later passed to cloistered Dominican nuns, who have lived here since 2007. Look for the kneeling ducal portraits in Giulio Campi's altarpiece.

The church stands about 2 km outside Cremona's historic centre, in largo Bianca Maria Visconti beside the Ospedale Maggiore. It is the abbey church of a cloistered Dominican convent, so access to the church may be limited by the nuns' prayer hours. The nave has six chapels on each side, and the first chapel on the right, entering, preserves the foundation stone laid on 20 June 1463.

The first stone, laid on 20 June 1463 in the presence of Bianca Maria Visconti and Francesco Sforza, is still visible in the first chapel on the right as you enter. The octagonal bell tower, finished around 1510, has a cylindrical upper section. The high altar holds Giulio Campi's altarpiece showing the Madonna in glory with Saints Crisante, Daria, Sigismondo and Girolamo, who present the Virgin to the kneeling ducal couple in sumptuous dress.