Palazzo Cusani
Palazzo Cusani traces its fortunes through Milan’s shift from noble residences to military administration. The Cusani family acquired a property near the Church of Sant’Eusebio during the 17th century, and in the early decades of that century Agostino Cusani—later marquis of Chignolo Po—would have had a palace erected there, before the earlier site disappeared. The building you see was remodelled twice: first between 1712 and 1719, when Gerolamo Cusani commissioned Giovanni Ruggeri for a new exterior façade, and later between 1775 and 1779, when Ferdinando Cusani entrusted the interior façade to Piermarini in Neoclassical forms. In 1808, Luigi Cusani sold the palace to the state property of the Kingdom of Italy, which established the Ministry of War there. …
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