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Portrait of Giacomo Melzi
Antonio Schieppati1802/1803
Ca’ Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Milan, Italy
Count Giacomo Melzi (1721-1802), captain and Knight of the Order of Malta, second son of Count Francesco Saverio, was one of the greatest art collectors in eighteenth-century Milan: his collection included an important group of Lombard paintings of the Renaissance (Bergognone, Zenale, Luini), acquired in the main at the time of the Napoleonic requisitions.
Details
- Title: Portrait of Giacomo Melzi
- Creator: Antonio Schieppati
- Creator Lifespan: 1746/1820
- Date Created: 1802/1803
- Location Created: Milano
- Physical Dimensions: h 219.4 x w 134.6 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: oil
- Art Genre: Portrait
- Support: canvas
- Inv.: Ritratti 000155
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