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Tra la città e la campagna. Gaspare Ambrogio Visconti committente d’arte

Autore: Stefania Buganza
In: Medioevo milanese. 3
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Abstract

The paper investigates the personality of Gaspare Ambrogio Visconti as a patron. In particular, it tries to reconstruct the history and the original appeareance of the Visconti’s villa, the so-called “Cascina Bianca” near Milan, destroyed in 2000 after years of neglect. The villa is mentioned by the poet himself, by Antonietto Fregoso and by Matteo Bandello in their writings. Its history is reconstructed on the basis of the ancient documentation, of two typewritten reports drawn up by the architect Andrea Fermini in the 1940s, finally of some images that portray the villa before the collapse. What emerges is the profile of a very particular building, characterized by unusual architectural solutions and by a set of fresco paintings very close to the decorations of the Castle of Vigevano, made by Bramante and his workshop during the 1490s.