Description
Palazzo Litta is one of Milan's great Baroque palaces, on Corso Magenta: a Rococo facade in a pale carmine, unusual for Milan, two stone giants at the entrance and, behind it, courtyards and halls where the Milanese nobility held their parties.
On the facade, completed around 1763 by Bartolomeo Bolli, two giants hold up the balcony above the entrance and, at the top, two Moors support the Litta coat of arms.
Inside are the main courtyard by Francesco Maria Richini, with paired Doric granite columns, and the pincer-shaped grand staircase by Carlo Giuseppe Merlo. On the piano nobile is the Hall of Mirrors, its ceiling painted as an open sky.
The chapel on the ground floor became a theater, still in use. The Leonardesque painting of the Madonna Litta was also kept here, until it was sold in 1865 to Tsar Alexander II.
On the facade, completed around 1763 by Bartolomeo Bolli, two giants hold up the balcony above the entrance and, at the top, two Moors support the Litta coat of arms.
Inside are the main courtyard by Francesco Maria Richini, with paired Doric granite columns, and the pincer-shaped grand staircase by Carlo Giuseppe Merlo. On the piano nobile is the Hall of Mirrors, its ceiling painted as an open sky.
The chapel on the ground floor became a theater, still in use. The Leonardesque painting of the Madonna Litta was also kept here, until it was sold in 1865 to Tsar Alexander II.