POLDI PEZZOLI, MUSEO

(Italian: Poldi Pezzoli Museum), in Milan, museum in the former private house of G.G. Poldi-Pezzoli, housing fine examples of arms and armour from the 14th to the 17th centuries. There are also antique tapestries. The staircase is decorated with landscapes by Alessandro Magnasco. One room is devoted to works by Bernardino Luini and the Lombard school of painters. Other notable works include portraits of Martin Luther and his wife by Lucas Cranach, a madonna by Andrea Mantegna, a madonna by Botticelli, St. Nicholas of Tolentino by Piero della Francesca, and Lady of the Bardi Family by Antonio Pollaiuolo. The Dante hall is decorated in Art Nouveau style. The museum was founded in 1879; destroyed by bombs in World War II, it was subsequently rebuilt.