Palace of Justice Milan

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Palace of Justice Milan

The Milan Justice Palace ( Palazzo di Giustizia in Italian ) is the seat of the Milanese Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Prosecutor General and is located on Via Freguglia 1 in the historic center of Milan .

history

The building was built during the Italian fascism between 1932 and 1940 under the direction of the architect Marcello Piacentini . The church of San Filippo Neri and the monastery of Schiave di Maria (Slaves of Mary) were demolished for its construction . The building roughly occupies the area where the Principe Eugenio barracks of Savoia stood.

description

The palace takes up a square area of ​​approximately 30,000 m² on a trapezoidal floor plan, with eight courtyards of different sizes. It has four floors and two mezzanines, access to the various areas is made possible by six stairs and nine elevators, plus numerous side stairs. A monumental staircase dominates, the main facade opens to a triple entrance portal with a 25 meter high passage. Latin idioms about the principles of jurisdiction dominate the main entrance and the two front parts on the main facade:

At the top of the left front piece:

Iurisprudentia est divinarum atque humanarum / rerum notitia iusti atque iniusti scientia ("Jurisprudence is the science of divine and human affairs, of just and unjust facts")

At the top of the main entrance:

IUSTITIA / Iuris praecepta sunt haec: honeste vivere / alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere ("JUSTICE / The provisions of the law are as follows: Live honestly / do no harm to others, ascribe to everyone his own")

At the top of the right front piece:

Sumus ad iustitiam nati neque opinione / sed natura constitutum est ius ("We have been tried since we were born and the law is based on nature, not opinion")

Style and Influences

The style in which the palace is built is called " Stile Novecento" after a group of artists founded by Margherita Sarfatti around 1920 . The palace also inspired other buildings, for example in 1937 it served as a model for Francesco Leoni for the new Palace of Justice in Forlì , a city that was then called the Città del Duce (City of the Leader) to serve as a showcase for the achievements of the fascist regime .

Works of art

The Milan palace was decorated inside with various mosaics, high reliefs, frescoes and sculptures, inspired by the Roman artistic tradition, intended to illustrate the history of justice, and important works of art are also collected there, including:

• Carlo Carrà , Justinian admires justice , fresco, 1938.
• Giovanni Colacicchi , Zaleuco, Judge of Locri , oil painting on hardboard.
• Achille Funi , Moses with the Tablets of the Law , fresco, 1936–39.
• Leone Lodi , five bas-reliefs from marble top pieces: Sant'Ambrogio , The Visconti , The foundation of the Fasci (destroyed after April 25, 1945).
• Arturo Martini , Fascist Justice , Marble, 1936–37.
• Piero Marussig , Justice , mosaic.
• Enzo Morelli , Divine and Human Justice Triumphs , Chancellery Hall, fresco, 1938–39
• Siro Penagini , Moses proclaiming the laws , fresco, 1937.
• Romano Romanelli , The Justice of Trajan , high relief , 1939.
• Antonio Giuseppe Santagata , Mosaics Justinian , Justice , The Graziano Canon , Napoleon Legislator ; The fascist laws were removed after the fall of fascism.
• Attilio Selva , Justice , Marble and Porphyry.
• Gino Severini , The Ten Commandments , mosaic.
• Mario Sironi , Justice Armed with the Law , mosaic, 1936.
• Mario Tozzi , Paradise Lost , fresco, 1938.

Resident courts and organs

• Corte d'appello di Milano (Court of Appeal)
• Procura generale (Public Prosecutor General)
• Tribunale per i minorenni (juvenile court)

Incidents

• On April 9, 2015, a defendant shot and killed a judge, a lawyer and another person in the Palace of Justice.

Web links

Commons : Palazzo di Giustizia (Milan)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Milan Palace of Justice , structurae.net, accessed on March 13, 2020
2. ↑ Three dead in Justizpalast , Deutschlandfunk , April 9, 2015, accessed on March 13, 2020
3. ↑ Three dead after shooting in court , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 9, 2015, accessed on March 13, 2020

Coordinates: 45 ° 27 '44 "  N , 9 ° 12' 4.9"  E