The Palazzo Brentano is a late

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

palace on Vicolo del Ghiaccio in the town of Corbetta located in the Metropolitan City of Milan in the Italian region of

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. The present larger palace at the site was designed by

Francesco Croce Francesco Croce (1696–1773) was an Italian baroque architect. He was mainly active in Milan, where he worked for the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano. Among other things, he designed the highest spire of the Duomo, the ''guglia del ti ...

. It was commissioned by Giuseppe Brentano, who had been made by the Austrian authorities, the Count of Caltignaga in 1715. A smaller but noble house had been owned by the Marquis Ferrante Villani Novati, and the property sold to Count Brentani in 1731. To enhance the prestige of this newly-minted aristocrat, he commissioned this more grandiose villa in the 1730s, and decoration continued until 1750, employing a number of artists who had been employed in the decoration of Palazzo Casati Dugnani and Palazzo Clerici in Milan, including

Giovanni Antonio Cucchi Giovanni Antonio Cucchi ( Campiglia Cervo, active 1750) was an Italian painter.Giovanni Angelo Borroni Giovanni Angelo Borroni (1684–1772) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque and early- Neoclassic periods, active mainly in Milan and Cremona. Biography He was born in Cremona and died in Milan. He was the pupil of the painter Angelo Massar ...

and

Mattia Bortoloni Mattia Bortoloni (31 March 1696 – 9 June 1750) was an important painter of the early Italian Rococo period. He began his career as a student of Antonio Balestra of Verona and was active throughout northern Italy. Biography For many years th ...

; Ferdinando Porta (who painted the ''Marriage of Cupid and Psyche'' in the main hall); and

Giovanni Battista Sassi Giovanni Battista Sassi (1679 in Milan – 1762 in Milan) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Milan and other areas of Lombardy, who painted in a late-Baroque and Rococo style. Biography Born in Lombardy, he first trained with Federigo ...

.Lombardia Beni Culturali
entry on palace. The Brentano family sold the palace in 1839. After a series of owners, the palace came to be property of tha Somaschi order in 1935. First a seminary, the palace now functions as a children's school.

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