Palazzo Litta Cusini Modignani
Palazzo Litta Cusini Modignani brings you into Milan’s long Baroque-to-neoclassical transition, but it begins in the late fifteenth century rather than the eighteenth. In the 1480s, Alberto Litta bought two buildings in contrada Passarella and merged them into a single noble residence. A century later, Camillo Litta commissioned major remodelling works, and by the mid-eighteenth century Alessandro Litta added further alterations—most notably a Baroque façade in a restrained style that already pointed toward neoclassicism. The most distinctive internal feature is the “scalone a tenaglia,” a double-flight staircase that Eugenio Litta later commissioned; it is inspired by the larger one in the Litta palace on corso Magenta. …
AI-generated from open data and cross-checked, with review where noted. How we write narrations
🎧 Listen in WayWhisper
