The Pogliaghi Museum (opened to the public in 1971) was founded 20 years earlier on the testamentary provisions of Milanese sculptor and artist Ludovico Pogliaghi (who was also a set designer; he studied sculpture and decoration with Bertini). Once property of the Holy See, it is now managed by the Pogliaghi Foundation on behalf of the Ambrosian Library in Milan.
The villa home to the Pogliaghi Museum
The museum is located in the 19th-century villa built by Ludovico Pogliaghi in eclectic style as an antiquarium intended to bring together his collections. Access is provided from the front churchyard of the Sanctuary of Santa Maria del Monte. A narrow gallery penetrates the village and leads before a pointed arch; this is where the road leads down to the chapels and the entrance to the museum.
Pogliaghi stayed in this building until he died in 1950. Up until that date, the artist continued embellishing and modifying his home. It includes a rather bright central body, thanks to the large glass portal culminating in a rounded arch. The complex has a Venetian-style loggia and ornate pediment tympanum (decorated with a mosaic reminiscing of Byzantine technique). The villa is embellished with a luxuriant Italian garden designed by Pogliaghi and the site of a valuable collection of Roman sculptures. In the exedra on the right is a sculpture in a recess: Prometeo by Pogliaghi himself.
Pogliaghi Museum: the collections
The Pogliaghi Museum contains heterogeneous art collections by the homonymous artist. The Sala del Tesoro (Treasure Hall) contains archaeological finds, late-Gothic, Italic and Nordic wooden Madonnas and an 18th-century Neapolitan crèche.
The room next door has works by Gianbologna and a terracotta draft by Bernini. The Sala Rossa (Red Hall) has several 18th-century dressing tables from Murano together with valuable Lombard furniture from the 17th-18th centuries and two canvases by A. Mognasco, also called the Lissandrino (1667-1749).
The Sala dello Scià (Hall of the Shah) is a replica of the great hall designed by Pogliaghi for the Persian sovereign in the palace in Teheran. There are some Egyptian sarcophagi there too. The exedra of old marbles contains original Greek, Etruscan and Roman pieces. A statue of a headless (the head we see is by Pogliaghi) Dionysus (4th-century BC) from the school of Praxiteles is worth mentioning.
The adjoining room is his study. This is the location of a full-scale plaster mould of the central door of the duomo in Milan, which Pogliaghi moulded and cast in bronze in 1908.
Photo gallery Pogliaghi Museum
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