Grand Salon

Grand Salon

7 Mar, 2017

Grand Salon The Grand Salon, the house’s reception room par excellence, is the biggest room in the Bagatti Valsecchi home. The brothers created a room of double height, and embellished the wooden coffers of the ceiling with gilded carved pinecones. An articulated...
Dining Room

Dining Room

7 Mar, 2017

Dining Room The wall covering in this room is made up of four large panels derived from a pair of tapestries, woven in Brussels around 1570, depicting the life of the Persian king, Cyrus. On the left of the large fireplace, a door, today always closed, once lead to...
Fausto’s Bathroom

Fausto’s Bathroom

21 Feb, 2017

Fausto’s Bathroom This seemingly sparsely decorated room is, in fact, the best expression of the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers’ philosophy for their home: love for the past and the art of the Italian Renaissance wedded to the search for then-modern comforts....
Study

Study

7 Mar, 2017

Study In Fausto’s and Giuseppe’s day, this room was the first in which visitors entering on the via Santo Spirito side were welcomed on the first, or noble, floor. With its old paintings, carved furniture, elegant door frames and the two-tone marble floor, it hinted...
Labyrinth Passage

Labyrinth Passage

21 Feb, 2017

Labyrinth Passage This room derives its name from the ceiling decoration, inspired by the sixteenth century Room of the Labyrinth in the ducal palace in Mantua. On the octagonal table, a collection of small antique tools and objects of daily use is arranged, including...
Atrium

Atrium

7 Mar, 2017

Atrium A staircase, solemn in style, leads from this room on the ground floor on the via Santo Spirito side to the first floor study. In the museum visit plan, the Atrium no longer functions as an entrance, but originally it and the monumental staircase allowed the...
Cupola Gallery

Cupola Gallery

21 Feb, 2017

Cupola Gallery The Cupola Gallery owes its name to the cupola with a skylight that hovers over it. Like the parallel Gallery of Arms, this space flanks the Grand Salon, and connects the two halves of the mansion, linking Fausto’s suite with that of his younger...
Arms Gallery

Arms Gallery

7 Mar, 2017

Arms Gallery In this long room, parallel to the Cupola Gallery on the other side of the Grand Salon, the two brothers displayed their collection of arms and armor, one of the distinctive traits of Lombard collecting. As is the rest of the house, antique examples are...