Palazzo Arese Explained

Palazzo Arese
Location Town:Milan
Location:Porta Orientale (8 Corso Venezia)
Destruction Date:1943

Palazzo Arese (also known as Palazzo Arese Lucini and Palazzo Arese Pallavicini) was a 16th century baroque palace and seat of a branch of the House of Arese in Milan, Italy. It was located adjacent to Casa Fontana Silvestri near the Porta Orientale (today Corso Venezia n°8). The palazzo was demolished in 1943 following damage sustained during the bombing of Milan in World War II.

Between 1565 and 1571 the Serbelloni family bought and demolished several houses on the site and originally built the palace in the baroque style.[1] [2] On 13 October 1679, Marco Arese (1637-1695), senator, supreme regent of the Council of Italy, and president of the ordinary magistrate, bought the property from Carlo Francesco Serbelloni, exchanging it in part with a palace and other buildings once belonging to Bartolomeo III Arese.[3] [4] From 1679 the home hosted the governor of the State of Milan, Paolo Spinola, marquis de los Balbases, count of Melgar.[5] [6] The facade was remodelled in the neoclassical style between 1810 and 1814 by Innocente Domenico Giusti on the recommendation of city authorities and the Napoleonic viceroy as part of the renovation of the Corso di Porta Orientale.[7]

General Giovanni Francesco Arese (1642 – 1721) displayed his notable collection of paintings in the house, including works by Rubens, Titian, van Dyck, Ribera, Bronzino, Parmigianino, and Moroni.[8] [9] Much of the collection was sold in 1812, during the building's renovation, to Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy.[10] In this same period, the palazzo was home to Antonietta Fagnani Arese (1778–1847), the subject of Ugo Foscolo's ode "All'amica risanata." Foscolo describes the palazzo in numerous letters to the countess of Barlassina.[11]

During the air raids of 1943, much of the interior of the building was seriously damaged by a fire, while the external architecture of the courtyard and the monumental staircase were only slightly damaged.[12] The current building at 8 Corso Venezia is said to retain one of Palazzo's neoclassical balconies in its facade.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Di Bello . Alberto . Bibloteca Centrale di Milano Contributo a una bibliografia dei palazzi privati di Milano dal XIV secolo all'età neoclassica .
  2. Book: Bianconi, Carlo . Nuova guida di Milano per gli amanti delle Belle Arti e delle sacre, e profane antichita' milanesi nuovamente corretta, ed ampliata delle cose più stimabili . Stamperia Sirtori . 1795 . 2nd . 81.
  3. Book: Viaggi in Italia per Francesco Gandini ovvero Descrizione geografica, storica, pittorica, statistica, postale e commerciale dell'Italia . 1833 . de Micheli . Luigi . 3 . Cremona . 231.
  4. Book: Guida di Milano o sia Descrizione della città e de' luoghi piu osseruabili ai quali di Milano recansi i forestieri compilata dal caualiere Luigi Bossi . Pietro e Giuseppe Vallardi librai e mercanti di stampe, contr. S. Margherita . 1818 . 43–44.
  5. Book: Pellegrino, Bruno . Così era Milano: Porta Comasina (C); Porta Nuova (N); Porta Orientale (O); Porta Romana (R); Porta Vercellina (V); Porta Ticinese (T) . Edizioni meneghine . 2011 . Milan . O, 30.
  6. Book: Bartoli, Francesco Carlo . Notizia delle pitture, sculture, ed architetture, che ornano le chiese, e gli altri luoghi pubblici di tutte le più rinomate citta' d'Italia, opera di Francesco Bartoli bolognese Accademico d'onore Clementino; che contiene il Piemonte, il Monferrato, e parte del Ducato di Milano . Antonio Sauioli in Merceria, appiè del ponte de'Beretteri . 1776–1777 . Venice . 209.
  7. Book: Bascapè, Giacomo C. . I palazzi della vecchia Milano . 1946 . 282.
  8. ARESE . FRANCO . 1967 . Una quadreria milanese della fine del Seicento . Arte Lombarda . 12 . 1 . 127–142 . 43131716 . 0004-3443.
  9. Book: Quadro storico di Milano . 1802 . MIlan . 138.
  10. Book: Mezzanotte . Paolo . Milano nell'arte e nella storia . Bascapè . Giacomo C. . C. Bestetti . 1968 . Milan . 489–490.
  11. Book: Chiarini, Giuseppe . Gli Amori Di Ugo Foscolo Nelle Sue Lettere, Vol. 1: Ricerche E Studi; Studio Storico Critico (Classic Reprint) . 2018 . 9780366309566 .
  12. Web site: Biblioteca Central di Milano: CONTRIBUTO A UNA BIBLIOGRAFIA DEI PALAZZI PRIVATI DI MILANO DAL XIV SECOLO ALL'ETÀ NEOCLASSICA .
  13. Web site: Il fantasma di corso Venezia - la Repubblica.it . 2020-04-19 . Archivio - la Repubblica.it . it.

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