Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, or *Museo Bagatti Valsecchi*, is a historic house museum that still presents itself the way its founders meant it to be: as a home first, a collection second. The collections were assembled by the Bagatti Valsecchi barons and displayed in their own residence, according to their wishes—so the furniture, maiolica, tapestries, and metalwork feel integrated rather than arranged for display. When you come to the paintings, the range is tightly Renaissance. You’ll find works such as Bernardo Zenale’s *S. Francis and S. John the Baptist* from around 1507—painted in the orbit of Leonardo da Vinci—and Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, known as Giampietrino, *Christ in Majesty* and related saints from the 1540s. There are also Italian works spanning the Trecento and Seicento, but most cluster in the Quattrocento and Cinquecento. …
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