A PROVINCE TO BE EXPLORED - Visita Milano

Western
Brianza
interest and close links with the Roman classicism mediated by the Ambrosiana
Academy in Milan. The organisation of the mansion regenerated the
whole city with its garden and wide driveway marked by buildings. A model
capital, Cesano became a paradigm for dozens of other buildings in the State
of Milan, built for the members of the Arese guild, and specific spaces
such as the Sala dei Fasti Romani, the Galleria Sapienziale and the
nymphaeum remained models for decades. The religious world of this moment
saw the reconstruction, at the request of Arese, of the sanctuary of
S. Pietro Martire al Faro in Seveso: this place of worship on the site of the
martyrdom of the Dominican inquisitor became a classicist church
After Cesano, the culture of the villa characterised the area: the 18thcentury
examples of Villa Volta Sannazzaro in Lentate (with frescoes by
the Tiepolo-style artist M. Bortoloni) and Villa Crivelli al Mombello in Limbiate;
the Functionalism of V illa Agnesi in Varedo, home of the scientist
M. Gaetana and under renovation; the Neoclassical episodes of Villa Antona
Traversi in Meda and V illa Traversi Tittoni in Desio, later converted
to one of the very first neo-Gothic complexes in Europe; the Italian Liberty
style of Villa Bagatti Valsecchi in Varedo and Villa Ponticelli in Nova Milanese;
the Rationalism of Villa Bianca in Seregno, by G. Terragni. On the
religious front came significant episodes: the neo-Romanesque Benedictine
complex in Seregno; the neo-Renaissance solemnity of the basilica
in Desio; and Spirito Maria Chiappetta’s passage from the neo-Gothic style
seen in S. Stefano Nuovo in Cesano Maderno to the Rationalism of S.
Valeria in Seregno.
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