Palazzo Olivazzi Trivulzio
Palazzo Olivazzi Trivulzio is a Milanese Baroque palace whose most distinctive feature is its carriage-friendly entrance: a large arched niche with a lowered arch, framed in bugnato, built to let coaches pass easily through the tight street. Even the façade keeps a restrained rhythm, with little ornament beyond simple window frames in masonry. The building dates to the 18th century, and its inner courtyard is porticoed, with three lowered arches per side supported by Ionic columns. On the corner between via Bigli and via Manzoni, a monumental angled balcony projects outward, its wrought-iron patternwork carried by decorative brackets. The palace changed hands at key moments: by the late 1700s it belonged to the Tanzi family, in 1810 it passed to the Nava, and later to the Poldi Pezzoli and then the Trivulzio. …
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