MUSEO POLDI PEZZOLI
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House museums exhibiting the paintings of the greatest masters of the Renaissance in Milan.
A few steps from La Scala and the Fashion Quadrilateral, this is a museum created from the private collection of the aristocrat Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli (1822-1879) at the end of the 19th century. It is one of the most important house museums in the world; inaugurated in 1881, paintings, sculptures, art objects and furniture that belonged to the family are displayed alongside masterpieces of the Lombard and Italian Renaissance. The house museum overlooks an English garden and is astonishing for its décor and the richness of its collections: more than 6,000 extraordinary objects dating from antiquity to the 19th century. One can admire paintings by the greatest masters of the Renaissance: Piero della Francesca, Botticelli (a moving Lamentation over the Dead Christ from 1495), Mantegna (a Madonna and Child from 1490), Canaletto, Tiepolo, Luini, Bergognone, and a Portrait of a Young Woman by Pollaiuolo from 1470, emblem of the museum. Wonderful is the small, cozy room dedicated to a collection of antique clocks, many of which are French; further on, a surprising set of scientific instruments from the 16th to the 19th century, including the first time-measurers. One can also admire jewelry, silverware, porcelain, glassware, furniture, lace, embroidery and fans. Numerous ancient weapons, including some finely decorated Renaissance parade armor, surprise the visitor in the armor gallery. Since 2008, the Poldi Pezzoli has been the director of the circuit of house museums, which the FAI is responsible for safeguarding.
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