2 Piazza Belgioioso
Milano
Lombardia
20121
IT
Piermarini constructed this palace for the princes, Antonio and Alberico Barbiano of Belgioioso between the years 1772 and 1781. The façade has three stories of twenty-five windows or doors each (three large doors) set into shallowly jointed ashlar stonework The central pediment is triangular. It has a colossal staircase decorated with classical stemmed vases. Above the columned gallery, on the semicircular vault, is German Neoclassical fresco by the Tyrolean, Martin Knoller.