Castello Visconteo (Pavia)

Castello Visconteo

The Castello Visconteo or Visconti Castle is a castle in Pavia, Lombardy, northern Italy.

It was built in 1360 by Galeazzo II Visconti, soon after the taking of the city, a free city-state until then. The credited architect is Bartolino da Novara. The castle used to be the main residence of the Visconti family, while the political capital of the state was Milan. North of the castle a wide park was enclosed, also including the Certosa of Pavia, founded 1396 according to a vow of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, meant to be a sort of private chapel of the Visconti dynasty. The Battle of Pavia (1525), climax of the Italian Wars, took place inside the castle park.

It presently houses the Civic Museums of Pavia (Museo Civici di Pavia) including the Pinacoteca Malaspina, Museo Archeologico and Sala Longobarda, Sezioni Medioevale e Rinascimentale Quadreria dell’800 (Collezione Morone), Museo del Risorgimento, Museo Robecchi Bricchetti, and the Cripta di Sant’Eusebio.^[1]

Collections

The Pinacoteca Malaspina and the collections of paintings until 1800 include the following works:^[2]

Master of the Adoration of Antwerp Master d'Arco Spinello Aretino Guariento d’Arpo Pietro Maria Bagnatore studio of Lazzaro Bastiani Master of Andriola de Barrachis Hans Sebald Beham Giovanni Bellini Bernardino Bergognone(?) Ambrogio Bevilacqua Isidoro Bianchi (?) Michele Bono, (Giambono) Jacobello di Bonomo Alessandro Bonvicino (il Moretto) Domenico Brusasorzi Bernardino Butinone Luca Cambiaso Domenico Campagnola Ottaviano Cane Giovanni Francesco Caroto ‘’Maestro dei Cartellini’’ Jacopo del Casentino Matteo della Chiesa Studio of Jean Clouet Jan Wellens de Cock Raffaellino del Colle Cima da Conegliano Correggio

Lorenzo Costa and Studio Studio of Lorenzo di Credi Giovanni Battista Crespi (il Cerano) Ortensio Crespi Giovanni Pietro and Giovanni Ambrogio De Donati Adam Elsheimer Gentile da Fabriano Paolo Farinati Bernardino Fasolo Floriano Ferramola Defendente Ferrari Giovanni Ambrogio Figino Simone di Filippo (Simone de' Crocifissi) Vincenzo Foppa Ambrogio da Fossano, (il Bergognone) Lattanzio Gambara Teodoro Ghisi Studio of Giampietrino Gerolamo Giovenone Hugo van der Goes Pietro Grammorseo (attribution) Bernardino Licinio Bernardino Luini Cesare Magni Giovanni Mansueti Studio of Pietro Marone Girolamo Melegulo(?) Antonello da Messina Master of San Miniato

Girolamo Mocetto Michelino Molinari, (da Besozzo) Luca Mombello Bartolomeo Montagna Master of Montefiore Conca (attribution) Panfilo Nuvolone Carlo Francesco Panfilo School of Joachim Patinir Palma il Giovane and his school Bernardino Parenzano Giovanni di Pietro da Pisa Studio of Frans Pourbus the younger School of Camillo Procaccini Gandolfino da Roreto Benedetto Rusconi Paolo Antonio de Scazoli (Fra Battista Spagnoli or Battista Mantovano (?) Terenzio Terenzi (il Rondolino) School of Francesco Terzi Gerolamo Tessari, (Girolamo Del Santo) Benvenuto Tisi (Garofalo) Giovan Battista Trotti, (il Malosso) Studio of Bonifacio Veronese Paolo Veronese Francesco da Verzate Giacomino Vismara Alvise Vivarini Rogier van der Weyden (copy) Bernardo Zenale

See also

• Galeazzo I Visconti
• Filippo Maria Visconti
• Manuel II Palaiologos
• Gonzaga, Lombardy
• Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia

References

1. Official site for Musei Civici.
2. Pinacoteca Malaspina, works on display.

External links

• More information
• Image gallery

Coordinates: 45°11′24″N 9°09′30″E / 45.19000°N 9.15833°E