Casa degli Omenoni

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Street facade
The "Omenoni" (atlases)
Casa degli Omenoni. Engraving by Serviliano Lattuada, Milan 1738

As Casa degli Omenoni , or Casa Leoni one in the center is Milan apartment house located designated by the sculptor himself in 1573 Leone Leoni in its design was built. The façade on the Via Omenoni 3 is connected to Hermen very vigorously modeled atlases decorated to the palace to its name ( Omenoni : in Milan dialect " strong, powerful men have helped"). The other name, Casa Leoni , alludes to that of the former owner of the house as well as to the many lions (it .: leoni ) that are repeated in the building sculpture of the house. Leoni, the most important sculptor at the court of Emperor Charles V , settled in Milan in 1546, where he died in 1590.

Building description

The four-wing complex presents itself on two floors facing the street, the seven axes of which are particularly three-dimensional. On both sides of the entrance gate, the windows and niches are flanked by a total of eight larger-than-life, antique-clad male figures, possibly supposed to represent barbarians defeated by the Romans . Presumably based on a design by the landlord, a friend and imitator of Michelangelo , they were carved in stone by Antonio Abondio in 1565 . Above it, Ionic columns connect the piano nobile with the mezzanine . Windows and niches formerly decorated with sculptures alternate here. The simple attic floor above the sturdy final cornice is a later addition. From the barrel-vaulted passage it goes into the inner courtyard surrounded by Doric columns (changed in 1929) and on the left into the relatively intact entrance hall from the 16th century.

Since 1924 the house has been the seat of one of the most exclusive Italian societies (Club per gentiluomini) made up of members of the nobility and the upper classes.

literature

  • Heinz Schomann : Lombardy. Art monuments and museums. (Reclams Kunstführer Vol. 1,1), Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, pp. 337-338

Web links

Commons : Casa degli Omenoni  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirstin Hausen: Milan, 2015, p. 111
  2. ↑ Casa degli Omenoni
  3. ↑ Not to be confused (as with Schomann) with the stylistically similar working Venetian sculptor Antonio A bb ondio , who died in 1549.
  4. ↑ http://www.milanofree.it/milano/monumenti/casa_degli_omenoni_.html

Coordinates: 45 ° 28 ′ 2.2 "  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 30.8"  E