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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 ...
The eighteenth century represents the last Baroque phase; the style did not blossom overtly into Rococo due to the normative action of the Milanese College of Engineers-Architects [note 2] and there was a change of trend: religious commissions no longer played the main role in the Milanese artistic scene, but gave way to the ville di delizia of ...
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.
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 interior, in the Baroque style, has a nave and two aisles. In the first chapel on the right are frescoes by Gian Paolo Lomazzo . In the right transept is a fresco by the Fiammenghini [ 4 ] [ 5 ] with Alexander IV Instituting the Order of the Augustinians , under which a 14th-century Crucifixion was discovered in 1956.
Pages in category "Baroque architecture in Milan" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Duomo di Milano, front façade, Milan, Italy Plate celebrating the laying of the first stone in 1386. Milan Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Milano [ˈdwɔːmo di miˈlaːno]; Lombard: Domm de Milan [ˈdɔm de miˈlãː]), or Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary (Italian: Basilica cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Nascente), is the cathedral church of Milan, Lombardy ...
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 ...