View of Milan with the Duomo
Oil on canvas, 15 x 25 cm
With frame cm 21,5 x 31,5
Luigi Bisi (Milan 1814-1886)
View of Milan with the Duomo
Oil on canvas, 15 x 25 cm
With frame cm 21,5 x 31,5
Luigi Bisi (Milan 1814-1886)
Luigi Bisi (Milan 1814-1886)
View of Milan with the Duomo and the Church of San Celso
Oil on canvas, 15 x 25 cm
With frame cm 21,5 x 31,5
The work in question depicts a view of Milan in which we can see both the recognizable Duomo di Milano that dominates the right, and part of the Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli at San Celso (1493 - late sixteenth century) on the left, in the foreground. Of this last building we can clearly identify the large lantern and the adjoining bell tower of Sighs, among the oldest in Milan and whose name derives from the fact that, in the past, the Milanese brides used to carry their own bouquet under the high building so as to propitiate a happy marriage, but at the same time the sighs of which she remembers are also those of the Saints, of the combatants and the faithful who over the centuries have passed in this place.
Signed at the bottom left, the painting under examination is a refined representation made by Luigi Bisi, born in Milan on 10 May 1814. Architect and painter of views, Luigi was the best known exponent of a family of Lombard artists. He approached art and in particular painting studying with his father Michele (1788-1874) and his uncle Giuseppe (1787-1869). Perfected at the Accademia di Brera with Francesco Durelli before and Giovanni Migliara after, in his youth he painted romantic fantasy landscapes, ruins and night in the moonlight, to approach later on the painting of architecture, devoting himself to noble and airy views, preferring above all the interiors of churches and in particular of the Duomo of Milan (of which he is said to have painted eighty-seven views).
From 1851 he held the chair of Prospettiva a Brera and from 1857 he collaborated on the restoration of the Duomo di Milano with his friend the architect Giovanni Brocca (1803-1876). Inspired by the eighteenth-century scenography, a theme he addressed several times in his lectures on architectural perspective, he freed himself from Baroque structures while maintaining a rationalism of Enlightenment origin, supported by a precise and clear brushstroke, of impeccable empirical rigor.
As an architect, he took part in the restoration of Sant'Ambrogio and other Milanese monuments, such as the Palazzo dei Giureconsulti, whose project was presented at the Brera Exhibition in 1877, A few years before Louis was appointed president of the Braidense Academy from 1879 until his death in 1886.
The numerous paintings by Luigi Bisi are now kept at the Civic Historical Collections of the Museum of Milan, at Palazzo Reale (three temperas with interiors of the Charterhouse of Pavia and Sant'Eustorgio), at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, the Revoltella Museum in Trieste, the Sabauda Gallery in Turin, the Tosio Martinengo Art Gallery in Brescia and the Pinacoteca del Belvedere (Interior of the Duomo in Milan signed and dated 1840).
The object is in good condition
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