Santina Novelli

The article proposes a study on the pictorial decorations on the exteriors of the architectures in the medieval period, which focuses on the small urban portion of Milan on which the Archbishop’s Palace and Royal Palace (the ancient Corte dell’Arengo) insist. The two main buildings are the subject of a physical and documentary reconnaissance aimed at recovering and understanding their 14th century appearance, ascribable, on a case-by-case basis, to choices made by Giovanni, Azzone and Gian Galeazzo Visconti...