Palazzo Archinto

Palazzo Archinto brings together Milanese Baroque ambition and the blunt consequences of war. Commissioned in the 17th century for the Archinto family—who held land around Porta Ticinese since the 12th century—the palace was designed by Francesco Maria Richini and served as the family’s principal residence. In the early 1700s, Count Carlo Archinto (1670–1732) turned the interiors into a stage for art: between 1730 and 1731 he commissioned Giovanni Battista Tiepolo to paint five ceiling frescoes for the wedding of Filippo Archinto to Giulia Borromeo. Those frescoes, including themes such as “Triumph of the Arts and Sciences,” were destroyed in the Allied bombings of August 1943; the exteriors were later restored, but the interiors were lost. …

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