Museo Poldi Pezzoli

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Lamentation over the Dead Christ, by Botticelli.

The Museo Poldi Pezzoli is an art museum in Milan, Italy. It is located near the Teatro alla Scala, on Via Manzoni 12.

The museum was originated in the 19th century as private collection of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli (1822-1879) and his mother, Rosa Trivulzio, of the family of the condottiero Gian Giacomo Trivulzio. Many of the rooms in the palace were redecorated starting in 1846, a commissions entrusted to Luigi Scrosati and Giuseppe Bertini. Individual rooms were often decorated and furnished to match the paintings hung on the walls. The architect Simone Cantoni (1736-1818) rebuilt the palace in its present Neoclassical style with an English-style interior garden. In 1850-1853 Gian Giacomo commissioned the architect Giuseppe Balzaretto to refurbish his apartment.^[1]

Gian Giacomo in his testament left the house and contents to the Brera Academy. Giuseppe Bertini, director of the Academy, opened the museum on April 25, 1881. During world war II, the palace suffered grave damage, but the artworks had been placed in safe storage. The museum was reopened in 1951 after reconstruction.

The museum is notable for its broad collection of Northern Italian and (for Italy) Netherlandish/Flemish artists. The exhibition includes as weaponry, glassworks, ceramics, jewelry, and furnishings.

Collection: Italian painters

Sited in the centre of the city, works on display include Italian painters such as:


Mariotto Albertinelli Giovanni d'Alemagna, uncle of Antonio Vivarini Sofonisba Anguissola Lorenzo Bartolini Fra Bartolomeo Luca Baudo Alessandro Mazzola Bedoli Jacopo Bellini Giuseppe Bertini Vitale da Bologna Francesco Bonsignori Paolo Borroni Alessandro Bonvicino (il Moretto from Brescia) Botticelli Giulio Campi Canaletto Francesco Capella (Dagiù)	Cristoforo Caselli Jacopo del Casentino Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Bernardo Cavallino Luigi Cavenaghi (see The Last Supper (Leonardo) Cima da Conegliano Luigi Crespi Daddi Gaetano Fasanotti Gaudenzio Ferrari Fetti Ambrogio Bergognone Gaetano Gandolfi Raffaellino del Garbo Baciccio Giovanni Francesco Gessi, a pupil of Guido Reni Giordano	Francesco Guardi Giacomo Guardi Francesco Hayez Pietro degli Ingannati Filippo Lippi Pietro Lorenzetti Lotto Bernardino Luini Giovanni Francesco Maineri Rutilio Manetti Andrea Mantegna Giovanni Martinelli il Morazzone Livio Mehus Lippo Memmi Michelangelo Francesco Morone Moroni	Carlo Francese & Giuseppe Nuvolone (son of (Panfilo Nuvolone) Marco D'Oggione Eleuterio Pagliano Filippo Palizzi, contemporary of Cornelius Van Leemputten Palma il Vecchio Marco Palmezzano Perugino Pesellino di Pietro (Lo Spagna) Antonio Pirri Pollaiolo Riccardo Pellegrini Giulio Cesare Procaccini Raibolini (il Francia) Ribera Gian Pietro Rizzi (Il Giampietrino) ’’il Sassoferrato’’	Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati) Raphael Luigi Scrosati Fra Semplice da Verona Cesare da Sesto Giovanni Servi Andrea Solario Gherardo Starnina Bernardo Strozzi Zanobi Strozzi, pupil of Fra Angelico Cesare Tamaroccio Francesco de Tatti Girolamo Tessari Del Santo Tiepolo Cosmè Tura Giovanni de' Vecchi Bartolomeo Veneto Antonio Vighi.

Northern European Painters

Painters in the collection include: Breughel the younger; Cranach; Goltzius; James Baker Pyne; Thomas Shotter Boys; Sutterman; Teniers the younger; Jacob Toorenvliet; Pierre Tetar van Elven; Mathijs Van Hellemont; Jan Van der Meer II; Willem Van Mieris; Jacob Ferdinand Voet; Nicolaus Alexander Mair Von Landshut, (Mair Landshut); and Cornelis de Wael.

References

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Coordinates: 45°28′07″N 9°11′29″E / 45.46874°N 9.19139°E / 45.46874; 9.19139

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