Su alcuni marmi della collezione Traversi di Desio

• Autores: Luca Tosi
• Localización: Prospettiva: rivista di storia dell'arte antica e moderna, ISSN 0394-0802, Nº. 138, 2010, págs. 68-76
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The article presents a small selection of sculptures from the collection of Giovanni Battista Traversi (1766-1854). He created his collection in the second quarter of the nineteenth century with the collaboration of Pelagio Palagi, the painter and architect who also designed the bizarre neo-gothic building where the works of art were placed. This tower was built in the romantic park of the huge site of villa TRaversi in desio, north of Milan, not far from Monza. The collection consisted of more than ninety works and was dispersed during the twentieth century; fortunately, a considerable number of sculptures was purchased by the Commune of Milan to be assigned to the Museo d’arte Antica of the Castello Sforzesco (1950). The main attention has been focused on the lost or unpublished sculptures with the greatest importance from an historical and artistic point of view, which may be dated from the twelfth century to the seventeenth century. Among the most significant discoveries, above all remarkable are the fourteenth-century frontal of the presumed funeral monument of Maria di Savoia (Galeazzo il Visconti’s wife) an d a tondo with the effigy of Bianca Visconti Bottigella, who died in 1486 and is well-known thanks to the similar portrait in the Pala Bottigella by Vicenzo Foppa.