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Milanese Baroque [1] refers to the dominant artistic style between the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century in the city. Due to the work of the Borromeo cardinals and its importance in the Italian domains, at first Spanish and then Austrian, Milan experienced a lively artistic season [ 2 ] in which it assumed the role of the ...
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 ...
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.
The Palazzo Litta, also known as the Palazzo Arese-Litta, is a Baroque structure in Milan, northern Italy, opposite San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, and dating from the period of Spanish rule of the city. In 2018, it served as a cultural center, housing exhibition spaces, offices, and a theater.
Baroque architecture is a building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy and spread in Europe. The style took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state in defiance of the Reformation.
The only clue to this style are the curved balconies of the first floor windows, decorated only with bare rectilinear frames, and the lion heads decorating the otherwise equally bare portal. The interior is different: Marquis Acerbi was the protagonist of a challenge with the Annoni family, owners of the palazzo di fronte , for who owned the ...
The villa was built in 1733 for Count Charles Joseph Bolagnos by the Milanese architect Giovanni Ruggeri who worked in the Baroque style. It was sold in 1779 to the Andreani family. The house contained their painting collection which featured works by Canaletto. [1]
The wings of the Cortile d'Onore (Honor Courtyard) were updated in a livelier style, introducing whitewashed walls and baroque window frames designed by Carlo Rinaldi. The church of San Gottardo was also re-decorated in painting, stucco and gilding and upgraded to be a proper Royal-Ducal Chapel. Salone dei Festini and Salone di Audienzia (now ...