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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.7186#0117
Plate 41.
PART OF THE PALACE OF THE VISCONTIS AND SFORZAS
AT CUSAGO.
5.°
Scale
of
Plate 41.
? Metres.
10 „ , .
\ English feet.
HIS palace, abandoned and neglected for centuries, is now occupied
by the steward and some inhabitants of the village and environs of
Abbiate Grasso. In days of yore it served as a summer residence for
some of the later Dukes of Milan, especially when hunting in the neighbouring
woods of the Ticino. The few terra-cotta cornices now to be seen are clumsily
modelled and put together, whilst the frescoes display a certain amount of
painstaking, and are executed in very bright colours ; amongst which are a
yellow and a green, finer than any we now possess. The thin lines marked on
the walls for the friezes, &c, are simply scratches made on the lime when
freshly laid and still wet, and are rudely and irregularly done. All show that
whilst a competent artist designed the decorations, their execution was left to
inexperienced youths or mere workmen.
L.
PART OF THE PALACE OF THE VISCONTIS AND SFORZAS
AT CUSAGO.
5.°
Scale
of
Plate 41.
? Metres.
10 „ , .
\ English feet.
HIS palace, abandoned and neglected for centuries, is now occupied
by the steward and some inhabitants of the village and environs of
Abbiate Grasso. In days of yore it served as a summer residence for
some of the later Dukes of Milan, especially when hunting in the neighbouring
woods of the Ticino. The few terra-cotta cornices now to be seen are clumsily
modelled and put together, whilst the frescoes display a certain amount of
painstaking, and are executed in very bright colours ; amongst which are a
yellow and a green, finer than any we now possess. The thin lines marked on
the walls for the friezes, &c, are simply scratches made on the lime when
freshly laid and still wet, and are rudely and irregularly done. All show that
whilst a competent artist designed the decorations, their execution was left to
inexperienced youths or mere workmen.
L.