Villa Gianetti, Historic villa and former town hall in Saronno, Italy.
Villa Gianetti is a manor house in Saronno featuring decorated rooms, columned porches, courtyards, and paintings by local artists Bonatti and Chiesa. The building now operates as a museum displaying these original artistic elements and early 20th-century architectural details.
Villa Gianetti was built between 1919 and 1920 to a design by the Milanese architect Domenico Verga. In 1923 the Gianetti family sold it to the Comune of Saronno, which made it the seat of the municipal offices. It served as the town hall until 1985, when the municipal offices left the building.
The name Villa Gianetti comes from the family that owned it until the municipality bought it in 1923. At the entrance to the portico hangs a reproduction of the Madonna del Lippi, painted by the Lombard artists Bonatti and Chiesa, a detail visitors can spot before entering.
Villa Gianetti stands in a large garden in Saronno, in the province of Varese. The municipal offices moved out in 1985, so the rooms and the art collection are no longer in daily administrative use. The entrance portico holds a reproduction of the Madonna del Lippi, painted by the Lombard artists Bonatti and Chiesa, a detail to look for on arrival.
The Madonna del Lippi reproduction at the portico entrance was painted by the Lombard painters Bonatti and Chiesa, not by Lippi himself. The original is a Filippo Lippi work; this copy shows how early 20th-century Lombard decorators reused Renaissance models in the villa.
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