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17 a 17 B 17 C ENGLISH 17 a Common Areas 17 b Gallery of Arms 17 c HIGHLIGHTS The gallery of arms and the stairway Composite armor with rich damask in gold on the via Gesù side are the only two (applications of gold leaf and thread on an engraved background) featuring the lion of areas in the house in which remain the Saint Mark, Brescia, 17th C, some pieces pre-1880 Eclectic style decorations—in integrated in the 19th C this case, the graceful gilded white Remarkable collection of hilted swords 1 stucco of the Late Baroque period, made in Germany and other parts of northern intended to evoke the magnificence and Europe, 16th – 17th C “Milanese-ness” of the family—prior to 5 Walnut chest carved with putti, foliage and a the refurbishment in the Renaissance coat-of-arms, Italy, 16th C style effected by the brothers, the Gunpowder flasks covered with embossed barons Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti boiled leather, Italy, 16th C Valsecchi. Small rare bust in armor with the cross of 6 the Knights of Malta, probably an ex voto of The gallery of arms, at the focal point the early 17th C for entering and exiting the house Round parade shield covered with boiled using either the original (via Gesù) or leather embossed with mythological scenes, the new (via Santo Spirito) stairway, Italy, third quarter of the 16th C 4 2 served critical symbolical purposes: to evoke an aristocratic manor. In addition, the collection also projected an image of wealth since it took an entire workshop about a year and a half to produce one suit of armor. Armor, pole arms and side arms principally 3 were chosen because fire arms, though present in the medieval and Renaissance periods, were associated with later epochs in the minds of the nineteenth century collectors. The collection of arms and armor also served to underscore two other principal themes in the house: the antiquity and “Milanese-ness” of the Bagatti Valsecchi family. For centuries, beginning in the medieval period, Milan was well known as one of the most important centers for the production of much sought after, beautiful and high quality arms and armor. Though not all of the arms and armor in the collection actually are from Milan, and the sword hilts often were reworked in the nineteenth century, the allusion is clear. The arms in this gallery—symmetrical with the gallery of the cupola on the other side of the grand salon; the brothers designed the skylights in both of the galleries—are displayed still as the brothers wished, in racks and on 12 11 10 8 7 6 9 sixteenth century chests (cassoni). As 13 5 4 preferred by the historical-style in vogue in the late nineteenth century, the 17 2 3 armor was composed on stands, as if 15 14 16 1 being worn by guards. Fausto’s apartment Giuseppe’s apartment Common areas ENGLISH 17 a Common Areas 17 b Gallery of Arms 17 c swept hilt, S-curve quillions, forte marked perforated crescent axe with large dorsal “BERNALDO” and “FERRARA,” Germany, ca. hooks, Germany, ca. 1580-1600 (n.1278) 4 1630; reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1127) · steel billhook with ferrule and spike on · steel composite side sword with basket hand opposite pole end, northern Italy, late 15th C; 14 1 guard, forte punched with “I:E:S:VS”, Spain (?), reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1279) ca. 1630-1640; reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1128) Lower row: · steel composite short sword in punched with · steel halberd, slender fluke perforated in 4 2 “IACOBO” Italy, ca. 1650 (n.1129) hump and underlying teeth, crescent axe with 13 3 · steel rapier, one curved quillion, swept hilt, perforated humps, vegetal and Old Testament ricasso punched “ANTONIO”, “PICININO” and motif engravings, Lombardy, ca. 1600 (n.1265) 4 with an illegible crowned shield, Germany, ca. · steel halberd, crescent axe with triangular 4 A N 1600 (n.1130) ends, Switzerland, late 16th C (n.1266) 12 · steel sword of state (incorrectly called an · steel halberd, perforated fluke, perforated executioner’s sword) with black leather- bound crescent axe with dorsal hooks, Switzerland or M 5 B C cord wound around the hilt, Germany or the southern Germany, ca. 1600 (n.1267) Tyrol, early 15th C (n.1286) · steel halberd, perforated fluke, crescent axe Middle row: with perforated triangular dorsal humps and 4 · steel composite side sword with basket guard, perforated with cross of S. Andrew, southern 4 curved knuckle guard, straight quillions, forte Germany, 1590-1600 (n.1268) L 4 4 C D punched with “SPADERO DEL REY,” Spain, ca. · composite infantry corselet (burgonet, 4 1650; reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1114) gorget, cuirass, tassets, brassards), Brescia, 4 · steel composite side sword with three- ca. 1575-1580 (n.1280) ringed swept hilt with small embossed barely · steel partisan with large cusp shaped like an perforated valves, S-curve quillions, forte elongated triangle, western Europe, late 17th C I 11 6 E F punched “H.X.H.X.H” and “H.X.H.X.H.X.,” (n.1270) Germany and Brescia (?), ca. 1630; reworked, · steel billhook, Italy, early 16th C; reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1115) Milan, 19th C (n.1271) · steel composite side sword with S-curve · steel billhook, Italy, late 15th C (n.1272) H 4 4 G quillions, three-ringed swept hilt, forte punched with “DE TOMAS DE AIALA,” Italy, ca. 1630; Arms rack 10 7 reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1116) From left to right, top row: 4 · steel composite side sword, S-curve · steel composite side sword with S-shaped quillions, shell-shaped knuckle guard, ricasso quillions, ring hand guard with shell-like valves, punched with a crowned “M” in egg-shaped forte twice punched with “I.E.S.V.S.,” Spain (?), 8 circles borders of with “IACOMO” and ca. 1640; reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1163) “DIEPPI”, Iacomo Dieppi, Milan, ca. 1650; · steel composite side sword with three- reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1117) ringed swept hilt with small flat valves, S-curve 9 · steel composite side sword, ringed swept hilt, quillions, tang also serves as ricasso, Germany, S-curve quillions, punched on the blade with ca. 1630; reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1164) “SACHGVM” and with a running wolf, Passau (?), · steel composite dress rapier with two-ringed ca. 1580; reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1118) swept hilt, punched “DE TOLEIO” on forte and · steel side sword with three-ringed swept hilt, “S” / “T” under a crown, Italy and Toledo, ca. Arms rack punched twice with “IHM MAR,” Germany, ca. 1600; reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1165) From left, to right: 1630 (no. 1119) · steel composite dress rapier, two-ringed hilt, · steel halberd, perforated fluke, perforated · steel composite side sword with three-ringed straight quillions, forte punched with “IOHAN crescent axe with dorsal hooks, Switzerland or swept hilt, S-curve quillions, Low Countries, VEIT VON WIRTZBVRG,” Würzburg, ca. 1590- southern Germany, ca. 1600 (n.1172) ricasso punched with faint egg-shaped mark, 1600; reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1166) · steel halberd, forked fluke, sharply pointed ca. 1620; reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1120) · steel composite corselet (helmet, gorget, crescent axe with dorsal bumps and floral motif · steel side sword with S-curve quillions, ring cuirass, tassets, brassard), Brescia, late 16th C engraving, Italy (Venice?), ca. 1570 (n.1173) hand guard with shell-like valves decorated (?); reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1171) · steel composite infantry corselet (helmet, with cherubs, western Europe, ca. 1640 (n.1121) · steel rapier with swept hilt, tang punched with gorget, cuirass, tassets, pauldrons), Italy, 16th · steel composite dress sword engraved with “CAINO” and with an “O” over a crowned “T”; -17th C (n.1176) “LA MORT EST MA VIE” on the blade, Flanders, forte punched “HRM HRM HRM” and “HRM · chanfron with two cheek-shields held by chain ca. 1660; reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1122) HRM HRM M”, Germany, ca. 1610 (n.1167) mail, Persia for Ottoman patron, ca. 1530-1550 · remains of a steel feather staff transformed into · steel composite short sword with cup hilt (n.1177) an axe and hammer, Italy, early 17th C (n.1285) and cuspate quillions, Low Countries, ca. 1660; · steel halberd, forked fluke, brace-shaped axe Lower row: reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1168) with central point and partially engraved with · three steel pagoda-shaped shields, western · steel composite side sword with double- floral motifs, Italy (Venice ?), ca. 1570 (n.1174) Europe, Germany (?), 17th C; strength test dent ringed swept hilt, S-curve quillion, and keg · steel halberd, triangular perforated fluke, probably from 19th C (n.1111,1112,1113) pommel, Germany, ca. 1610; reworked, Milan, perforated crescent axe with dorsal hooks and 19th C (n.1169) engraved with floral motifs, Venice, ca. 1590 Rack · steel composite side sword with swept hilt, (n.1175) From left to right, upper row: straight quillions and keg pommel, ricasso · steel halberd, triangular fluke punched with a punched with three little stars, Germany, ca. Arms rack crowned anvil and with perforations in hump 1630; reworked, Milan, 19th C (n.1170) From left to right, top row: and underlying teeth, slender crescent axe with · steel composite side sword with three-ringed · steel sapper’s axe in with curvilinear profile, perforations and dorsal hooks (points broken), swept hilt, straight quillions, tang punched Germany, second half of the 17th C (n.1288) Lombardy, ca. 1600 (n.1273) with a small boat within a rectangle flanked · steel composite side sword with ring hilt with · steel parade halberd, perforated blade, by flies, blade also punched with a fly and stylized shell-like valves, S-curve quillions, triangular perforated fluke with underlying “M+A+R+A+N”, Italy, ca.
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