Palazzo Annoni
Palazzo Annoni stands on Corso di Porta Romana in Milan, presenting a seventeenth-century Baroque palace. Its façade sets two window orders against alternating curved and triangular pediments on the noble floor. Francesco Maria Richini designed it for Paolo Annoni, a wealthy silk merchant, and construction began in 1631.
The central entrance places two columns with Ionic capitals beneath the central balcony. A seventeenth-century wrought-iron gate gives you a glimpse of the courtyard, framed by Tuscan columns. Upper-floor windows carry architraves and Ionic pilasters, extending the façade’s ordered rhythm.
In the eighteenth century, Count Carlo Annoni made the palace a cultural centre with a library and art collection. Rubens and Van Dyck featured among the artists represented, before Austrian occupiers confiscated the treasures in 1848. World War Two damaged the building, but its grand staircase still preserves a tangible trace of its earlier splendour.
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