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Morando Palace - Costume Fashion Museum

Morando Palace is a historic building in the city of Milan, now home to the Milan Museum and the Costume Fashion Immagine collection.

The first important family to come into possession was the Casati family, who bought it at the end of the sixteenth century. traces of the seventeenth-century decoration of the palace, due to this family, remain in two halls on the main floor, located in the rear wing overlooking the garden, with painted coffered ceilings, and pieces of a frieze with cupids, in which we can read the date 1651.

The most profound imprint in the palace was however left by the Villa family, who owned it from 1733, when the jurist Carlo Federico Villa bought it, until the death without direct heirs of his grandson Carlo, homonymous of his grandfather, in 1845. Giovanni Villa, son di Carlo, bought the fiefdom of Grezzago in 1750, and in 1762 he married Maria, of the ancient and noble Pusterla family.

In 1770 he applied to the Austrian administration for the annexation of his family into the body of the Milanese nobility. In conjunction with his social rise, Giovanni in those same years promoted important works of embellishment of the building, which gave it the appearance still predominant today, in the interior as in the exterior, according to the taste of the Lombard baroque then prevailing.

With the death of Carlo, mayor of Milan, who had neither wife nor children, the palace passed to the De Cristoforis, Weill Schott family and finally in 1909 it was bought by the spouses Gian Giacomo and Lydia Morando Attandolo Bolognini, who lived there until their death. of Countess Lydia, who, in the absence of direct heirs, donated it to the Municipality of Milan in 1945.

After the war, following the destruction during the bombing of the monumental apartments of Palazzo Sormani, which until then had been the seat of the Museum of the city of Milan, it was decided to transfer here the collection of works and relics of the history of the city, which had escaped destruction, constituted in mostly from the legacy of Luigi Beretta.

The museum also exhibits the art collection donated by the Duchess Eugenia Litta Visconti Arese born Attandolo Bolognini to the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan, including, among other things, the famous Morning Prayer, a romantic sculpture commissioned from Vincenzo Vela in 1846 by the duke Giulio Litta, husband of Eugenia.

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