Villa Antona Traversi is located in Italy and it is a
neoclassical residence owned by the Antona Traversi. Nowadays it is used as a
private residence. The location of this villa is Piazza Vittorio Veneto Meda.
Today it is owned by the family of Antona.
History :
The Villa Antona in Meda located at the hilltop and it
almost chose 12 centuries ago to found the Monastery around 830. On the
foundation of the Cloister, a legend witnessed the code 509 preserved in the
Milan. The family of Antona at that time at hunting trip in Brianza was chased
by the wild pigs up to the place where they stood a church in honor. The
Monastery already exists in the year 856: a parchment confirms that in that
year the abbess Tagiperga makes an exchange of land with Pietro, abbot of the
monastery of S. Ambrogio in Milan.Here how the story begins.
Middle Ages:
The authority of the Monastery was changed in the first
centuries. In 1194 comes with his bride and stopped at Meda during his journey
to the kingdom of Sicily. Meda was attracted to Milanese and suffered from the
same noble dominations. After the Spanish period, the monastery was not
repressed because there was a school opened for the girls in the Meda village.
After the arrival of Napoleon and the proclamation of the Cisalpine Republic,
the female monastery of S. Vittore on May 29, 1798, was suppressed, the nuns
expelled and the property sold at auction. The reclusive building was bought by
Giovanni Giuseppe Maunier, a commercial of Marseilles and a supplier of the
French army, who custom-built the change into a neoclassical villa to the
architect Leopoldo Pollack, who was in Meda at that time as showed by the
reports and sketches by him left with respect to the collapse of the church
bell tower.
Description :
Today Villa Antona Traversi is architecturally in
neoclassical forms and the same perception is found in the murals of the inner
adornment, but there are still living remains of the antique Monastery, in
particular, the church of S. Vittore of 1520. Pollack, commissioned by the Maunier,
kept the monastery of the monastery, which currently serves as the inner
courtyard of the villa, partially closing the colonnades. The part where the
architect's interference is most obvious is the frontage and the garden. This
was thought of as a large hemicycle, or "roundabout", facing south-east on the hill from which once conquered the winery, now
disappeared, and the village of Meda. On this Villa the long frontage was
built, also it is characterized by vital decorations and hard lines in the Piermarini
style.
Inside the villa, the only atmosphere to preserve the
streamers of the ancient monastery, in addition to the former church, is the
archive room, called Sala Degli Angeli, which presents the vault frescoed by
Fiammenghini. On the other hand, the sophisticated neoclassical streamers of
the Napoleonic period in the octagon and in the room of masks are perfectly
preserved, with a vault tinted with false coffers and decorative themes of
classical origin inspired by the Roman Theater.
