Bagatti Valsecchi Museum

The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is a historic house museum in the Montenapoleone district of downtown Milan, northern Italy.

Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
Facade of Bagatti Valsecchi
EstablishedNon-profit private foundation, founded in 1974, and open to the public since 1994
LocationMilan
DirectorPier Fausto Bagatti Valsecchi
Websitewww.museobagattivalsecchi.org and www.bagattivalsecchi.house.museum

The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum’s permanent collections principally contain Italian Renaissance decorative arts (such as maiolica, furniture, tapestry, metalwork, leather, glassware and precious table-top coffers made of ivory, or “stucco and pastiglia”), some sculptures (including a Madonna and Child lunette by a follower of Donatello), and many paintings. European Renaissance weapons, armor, clocks and a few textiles and scientific and musical instruments complete the collection assembled by the Barons Bagatti Valsecchi, and displayed in their home, as per their wishes.

Paintings

The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, although originally intended as a private home, not a gallery, has an interesting collection of Italian Renaissance paintings. A few are from the Trecento/14th century and the Seicento/17th century, but most date to the Quattrocento/15th century, or the Cinquecento/16th century. They include:

DEMHIST

The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, home to DEMHIST, ICOM's International Committee for Historic House Museums from its founding in 1998 until the end of the board’s first triennial in 2002, continues to support activities geared to furthering our understanding of this kind of museum. For this reason, the indexes of the first three DEMHIST Acts for the conferences are available online on the DEMHIST page of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum website. References to other publications, including the Acts of a 2005 conference on historic house museums in Milan, are also available.[1]

Notes
  1. 2005 conference Archived 2007-10-23 at the Wayback Machine.

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