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Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Gloria Angelica, Foppa Chapel, Church of San Marco, a typical example of art of the second half of the 16th century in Milan. The Milanese art scene of the second half of the 16th century must be analyzed by considering the particular position of the city: while for the Spanish Empire it represented a strategic military outpost, from the religious point of view it was ...
Garegnano Charterhouse, also known as Milan Charterhouse (Italian: Certosa di Garegnano or Certosa di Milano) is a former Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, located on the outskirts of Milan, Italy, in the Garegnano district. It now houses a community of Capuchin Friars.
In 1833, the property was purchased by Carlo Finelli for the sum of 360,000 Milanese lira, [3] to then be sold to the patrician family of the Visconti di Modrone [4] would be a descendant a few years later, for the much higher sum of 750. 000 Milanese lira., [5] who embellished the house with the Visconti stemmi that still decorate the house today.
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s.
Milan (/ m ɪ ˈ l æ n / mil-AN, US also / m ɪ ˈ l ɑː n / mil-AHN, [5] [6] Milanese: ⓘ; Italian: Milano ⓘ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban population [7] and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
The Milan gallery and its roof have been acknowledged as an important reference on 19th-century iron-and-glass architecture by Pevsner [4] and Hitchcock. [5] As one can still observe today, the roof consists of four barrel vaults (approximately 14.5 m in width and 8.5 m in height) that are crowned with a huge dome (around 37.5 m as internal ...
The hotel is located in the heart of Milan within the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, a structure originally designed by Giuseppe Mengoni in 1861 and built between 1865 and 1877. Named after Italy's first king , Vittorio Emanuele II , the five-story building features two glass-vaulted arcades and a central dome that connects the Piazza del Duomo ...
The Milan fashion morning commute started in a metro station where MSGM creative director Massimo Giorgetti considered how the world has speeded up in a collection that celebrates Milan’s oldest ...