Poldi Pezzoli Museum
House-museum of a nineteenth-century noble collector, its gilded Renaissance-style hall rebuilt after wartime bombing destroyed it.
Poldi Pezzoli Museum's story starts on an August night in 1943, when bombs tore the roof off this Milanese palace, a palace left empty because months earlier someone had quietly packed away every painting, dagger and clock inside and carried it off to hide. The guide follows Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli, a nobleman who inherited a fortune at twenty-four and spent his life collecting armor, lace and paintings, and the jewel-box hall of gilded wood he commissioned but never lived to see finished. You'll hear how architects rebuilt that ruined room after the war, aiming to remake it as it had been. Look for the one painting that still commands the room today.
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