page_title: Italian Baroque architecture
section_title: Milan
hierarchical_section_title: Italian Baroque architecture / North Italy / Milan
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Facciata di palazzo Litta vista dal corso
context_page_description: Italian Baroque architecture refers to Baroque architecture in Italy.
context_section_description: Francesco Maria Richini (1584–1658) was the most important Milanese architect.
  Between 1607 and 1630 he built the Church of San Giuseppe, which, like Church of the Gesù in Rome, was meant to practice the excess over the Mannerist academic vogue until then.
  Richini introduced a combined plan, consisting of two central areas derived from Church of Sant'Alessandro in Zebedia, also in Milan; the plastic effect is also noticeable in the façade, decorated by a series of overlapping niches.
  Subsequently, in 1627 he devoted himself to the façade of the Collegio Elvetico (now the seat of Archivio di Stato), where he aimed at an integration between the interior and exterior through a concave prospectus. This interesting solution, possibly the first curved façade of the Baroque period, predates certain themes later expressed by Borromini, and confirms Richini as one of the greatest architects of the early Baroque.
caption: The Baroque Palazzo Litta in Milan.
exif: {"Image Tag 0x000B": "Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384", "Image Make": "LG Electronics", "Image Model": "LG-H735", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384", "Image DateTime": "2017:11:19 21:46:49", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "2366", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "0", "GPS GPSAltitude": "0", "Image GPSInfo": "6414", "Image Padding": "[]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "96", "Thumbnail YResolution": "96", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "6548", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "13292", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/2506", "EXIF FNumber": "12/5", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "50", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2017:11:19 11:27:48", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2017:11:19 11:27:48", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "11291/1000", "EXIF ApertureValue": "12/5", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "CenterWeightedAverage", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire", "EXIF FocalLength": "159/50", "EXIF SubSecTime": "993152", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "993152", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "993152", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3264", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2448", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "6392", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF Padding": "[]", "EXIF OffsetSchema": "3739"}