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In early 1770, the young Mozart resided in the monastery of San Marco for three months [1] and, on May 22, 1874, the first anniversary of the death of the Milanese poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni was commemorated in the church by the first performance of Verdi's Requiem, written in his honour.
The Palazzo Taverna is a late Neoclassical palace in Milan, Italy, designed by Ferdinando Albertolli in 1835. It is located at 2, Via Montenapoleone, in the Porta Nuova district of the city. [ 1 ]
The Diocesan Museum of Milan (Museo Diocesano di Milano in Italian) is an art museum in Milan housing a permanent collection of sacred artworks, especially from Milan and Lombardy. [1]
Milan Tourism Site; Bartoli, Francesco (1776–1777). Notizia delle pitture, sculture, ed architetture, che ornano le chiese, e gli altri luoghi pubblici di tutte le più rinomate città d'Italia e di non poche terre, castella, e ville d'alcuni rispettivi distretti.
Palazzo Saporiti. Villas and palaces in Milan are used to indicate public and private buildings in Milan of particular artistic and architectural value. The lack of a royal court did not give Milan the prerequisites for a significant development of building construction; nevertheless it contains architectural works from different eras and different styles: from Romanesque to neo-Gothic, from ...
Lotz, Wolfgang, La trasformazione sansoviniana di Piazza S. Marco e l'urbanistica del Cinquecento (Vicenza: Centro internazionale di studi di architettura Andrea Palladio, 1966) SBN VEA1200235 Lotz, Wolfgang , 'The Roman Legacy in Sansovino's Venetian Buildings', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians , Vol. 22, No. 1 (Mar 1963), 3 ...
The immediate neighborhood also had ancient small parish churches of San Pietro all Orto and San Giorgio alla Nocetta, or later San Giorgio Alamanno. In the 19th-century desires for modern urban planning motivated the municipality to desire to create a linear boulevard from the Piazza of the Duomo of Milan to the piazza San Babila.
The Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, also housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery.Named after Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, it was founded in 1609 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, whose agents scoured Western Europe and even Greece and Syria for books and manuscripts.