The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is a late-19th-century collector's historic
house museum in Milan, Italy. The brothers, Barons Fausto and Giuseppe
Bagatti Valsecchi, remodelled the family home in the Italian Renaissance
style. They also filled it with Renaissance art and decorative arts pieces
put back into use alongside Neo-Renaissance 'recreations' and then-modern
comforts masked as Renaissance objects in order to create a unified
environment.
The museum's collections offer many points of interest for your
studies and lectures: a myriad of daily use objects, cassoni from
the late-15th-/early-16th-centuries, Renaissance tables and chairs
(including a late-16th-/early-17th-century child's walker), high-reliefs
from the workshop of Tommaso Rodari, leather covered spheres (celestial,
terrestrial), many objects made of ivory from a small Ottonian box to a
small 17th-century German roulette wheel, Italian and Hispano-Moorish
ceramics and majolica, small bronze sculpted objects, stained glass,
mid-16th-century Flemish tapestries, and paintings from the
14th-/17th-centuries (of particular note is the late-15th-century
confraternity fresco, as well as the paintings by Giampietrino, Zenale, and
Giovanni Bellini).
The museum has been open only since 1994, and recently has begun to
reach out more actively to an international audience. In order to introduce
itself to you, the museum would like to offer you something special on a
first come, first served basis: its slides and books for only the postage
and handling costs.
One slide set features principally paintings, while the other set
concentrates on decorative arts. The slide sets normally cost E. 6.00 each.
The Acts of conferences conducted at our museum deal with a vast range of
art historical and conservation issues not limited to objects in our
collections. Topics covered are: the allure of the Orient, applied arts in
the 18th-/19th-centuries, patterns of art and history in the 19th-century,
as well as the restoration of gold objects, leather, textiles, and
decorative arts. Normally, these books range in price from E. 10.00 to E.
13.00 each.
We hope to pique your interest in our museum and its collections, and I look
forward to hearing from you about how to obtain the slide sets and books. If
you first would like the lists of the slides and books available, I will be
happy to send them to you. Moreover, if you are coming to Milan, I would
love to show our museum to you, so please do give me a call.
Best regards,
Star Meyer, Ph.D.
Cultural and Marketing Coordinator, Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
tel. +39-02-7600.6132
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http://www.museobagattivalsecchi.org
P.S., please forgive the multiple postings, thank you!
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