Palazzo Marino (Milan)
The Palazzo Marino now serves as the town hall of Milan and the representative building of the city administration. Erected in the late Renaissance for the banker Tommaso Marino, today it is the most important private palace in Milan with its main façade facing the Piazza della Scala and Piazza San Fedele and the lavishly designed inner courtyard.
history
Tommaso Marino (1475–1572), a Genoa merchant and leading financier of Emperor Charles V and the Holy See , had the ambitiously dimensioned (62 × 54 m) city palace built by Galeazzo Alessi from 1558 . Alessi, who was trained in Rome and clearly influenced by Michelangelo , cultivated a lush, decoratively enriched construction method at the transition between Renaissance and Baroque. Marino had taken over economically with this building and his businesses, so that after his death the building was taken over by the Habsburg state to settle his debts . In 1682 the large double staircase was installed, and Luca Beltrami did not complete the facade facing the Scala until 1890, based on the model of Alessi's southeast view .
Building design
The four-wing building closes around two inner courtyards. The repertoire of forms corresponds to the Roman architectural tradition. Wide friezes separate the three storeys of the main facade. The rectangular ground floor windows are flanked by manneristically shaped half-columns. On the main floor ( piano nobile ) above, split gables alternate in segment and triangular form. On the second floor, which is barely lower, the richness of the decorative elements is somewhat reduced, with a wide cornice supporting the balustrade on the attic .
The main entrance on the southwest side of Via Tommaso Marino leads into the courtyard. A two-story corridor surrounds it on four sides. The colonnade on the ground floor is supported by pairs of Doric columns. On the loggia above, female hermen pilasters continue the support function, their Ionic capitals have mutated into volutes of hair. The Roman-trained Alessi enriches the classic, strict outline with bizarre details with relief fields, lion consoles, meandering ribbons , balustrades, figure niches, mascarons and flower garlands even more than on the facade , probably to accommodate the Lombardy joy of jewelry of the Milanese.
The high hall on the ground floor was furnished with Mannerist stucco decorations and allegorical paintings around 1570.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frommel, p. 254
literature
- Heinz Schomann: Lombardy. Art monuments and museums (Reclam's Art Guide Vol. 1,1), Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, pp. 354–356.
- Christoph Luitpold Frommel: The architecture of the Renaissance in Italy , 2009, pp. 253-254.
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Coordinates: 45 ° 27 '59.4 " N , 9 ° 11' 26.5" E