Painting, Palazzo Borromeo, Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore

Glory of St Carlo Borromeo, detail, painting by Giovanni Battista Crespi, or Il Cerano, 1573-1632, in the Berthier Gallery, displaying the family collection of 130 paintings, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The gallery was renamed in August 1797 after French general Louis-Alexandre Berthier who visited with Napoleon. The palazzo, begun 1632, was designed by Angelo Crivelli, for Carlo III Borromeo and his wife Isabella D'Adda, then completed by Carlo Fontana for Giberto III Borromeo and Vitaliano VI Borromeo. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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