Lesenes with the coat-of-arms of Birago and Orsini families

Agostino Busti, known as Bambaia, was a very refined sculptor
active in Milan in the first half of the sixteenth century. These two lesenes, which bear the
coats-of-arms of two noble Milan families, the Birago and the Orsini, are kept
in the museum's ninth hall and are a wonderful example of the artist's
sculptural ability. They belonged to the collection of Giuseppe Bossi, painter
and great connoisseur of Leonardo da Vinic and of Bambaia himself, and
secretary of the Academy of Brera between 1801 and 1807.