Tucked behind the high altar of the Basilca di Sant'Eustorgio is Pigello Portinari's splendid private chapel. Representative of the Medici bank in Milan, Portinari had his chapel decorated by art star Vicenzo Foppa. In the centre, borne aloft on life-size statues of the Cardinal Virtues, is the white marble Ark of St Peter Martyr, Prior of Como. Its sculptural detail and fancy Gothic aedicule (canopy supported by columns) make it one of the finest sarcophagi in Italy.
