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2 Museo Tolentino by Piero della
Poldi Pezzoli Francesca, Botticelli’s Madonna
and Child and Lamentation, a
Via Manzoni 12. Map 4 D5. Tel 02-79 Madonna and Child by Andrea
48 89. q 3 Montenapo leo ne. v 1. Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini’s
@ 61, 94. Open 10am–6pm Wed–
Mon (last adm: 5:30pm). Closed 1 Jan, Pietà and the Portrait of a Young
Woman attributed to Piero
Easter, 25 Apr, 1 May, 15 Aug, 1 Nov,
8, 25 & 26 Dec. & (no flash). 7 del Pollaiolo. Three small rooms
8 Lecture hall, Library. = house the Visconti Venosta
∑ museopoldipezzoli.it collection, the portraits by
Fra Galgario, including The
This private museum was Gentleman with the Tricorn and
established by nobleman Gian a very important collection of
Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli and clocks from the 16th to the 19th
opened to the public in 1881. century. The Murano Glass Room
Fountain in the inner garden of a palazzo The museum, a singular example has fine specimens of Venetian
in Via Manzoni of a late 19th-century aristocratic glass work, and the Dante Study
Milanese residence, contains features two stained-glass
1 Via Manzoni Poldi Pezzoli’s fine collection windows celebrating Dante’s life.
of paintings, The last rooms
Map 4 D4. q 1 Duomo, 3
Montenapoleone. v 1. @ 61, 94. sculpture, rugs, house paintings
Palazzi not open for visitors. armour, glass, by Tiepolo,
watches and Guardia,
Once known as “Corsia del textiles. The Canaletto and
Giardino” (Garden Lane) ground floor Poldi Pezzoli 14th-century
because of its many parks, houses arms and Museum logo panels. Lastly, the
this street acquired its present armour from the 14th Jewellery Room hosts
name in 1865, when the great to the 19th century in a setting a collection of precious jewellery
Italian novelist Manzoni died. designed by artist Arnaldo and goldsmithery from antiquity
Its aristocratic appearance Pomodoro. The Fresco Room, to the 19th century.
is created by the patrician named after The Apotheosis of On some Wednesdays the
palazzi and Teatro alla Scala (see Bar tolomeo Colleoni frescoed by museum organizes a “happy
pp54–5), which stimula ted the Carlo Innocenzo Carloni, boasts hour” between 6 and 9pm.
opening of chic cafés attracting a Tabriz carpet with hunting The €9 fee includes admission
a smart clientele. At No. 6 is scenes (Persia, 1542–3). In the to the museum and a drink to
19th-century Palazzo Brentani, adjoining room is the museum’s enjoy while taking in the exhibits.
decorated with medallions with collection of lace. Check the museum website for
busts of illustrious persons, and The staircase, decorated further details.
No. 10 is Palazzo Anguissola with landscapes by
(1775–8), which now houses Magnasco, leads to
the historic archive of the Banca the first floor. In the
Commerciale Italiana. No. 12, Lombard Rooms is
another 19th-century building, 15th–16th-century
is the home of the famous Lombard painting,
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, and No. 29 with works by
is the Grand Hotel et de Milan Bergognone, Luini,
(1865), where Giuseppe Verdi the Leonardoesque
died in 1901. painters, a Polyptych
Near the end of Via by Cristoforo Moretti,
Monte napoleone stands Aldo and Vincenzo Foppa’s
Rossi’s monument to former Portrait of Giovanni
Italian President Sandro Pertini Francesco Brivio. The
(1990) and, next to this, Palazzo portraits of Martin
Gallarati Scotti (No. 30), built in Luther and his wife by
the early 1700s. Opposite, Via Lucas Cranach (1529)
Pisoni takes you to the remains are in the Foreign
of the 15th-century cloister of Artists Room. A
the Umiliate di Sant’Erasmo showcase of precious
monastery, now part of a porcelain separates
modern building. In the last the next room from
stretch is 18th-century Palazzo the Golden Room,
Borro meo d’Adda, which was where masterpieces
a haunt for literati and artists, are on display. These
including Stendhal. include St Nicholas of Botticelli’s Pietà (1495), Museo Poldi Pezzoli

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