Palazzo Orsini

Palazzo Orsini brings together three generations of Milanese patronage under a neoclassical façade shaped in the nineteenth century. The palace was first completed in the second half of the 17th century by members of the Secco-Borella family, before it was acquired by the Orsini family and refurbished. Ownership then passed to the Falcò-Pio families, who held the palace until 1918. On the exterior, the most legible change came later: the façade was designed by Luigi Clerichetti in the second half of the 19th century, aligning the building with the city’s neoclassical taste. Inside, Luigi Canonica planned and decorated the interiors and the grand staircase, while fresco work was carried out by Giovanni Antonio Cucchi and Andrea Appiani—names strongly associated with the decorative intensity of the period. …

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