
The Lampugnani Conspiracy
Lampugnani's Conspiracy is an 1826 oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez, now in the pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, which acquired it in 1907. It shows the conspiracy led by Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani, Gerolamo Olgiati, Carlo Visconti and Cola Montano to overthrow the tyranny of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, killed on 26 December 1476 in Santo Stefano church in Milan.
As reported in a 5 January 1830 letter by the artist, the work was commissioned in 1823 by Teresa Borri, widow of count Stefano Decio Stampa and future wife of Alessandro Manzoni, though (as recorded by Defendente Sacchi) it was only completed in 1826 in place of a Portrait of the Borri Stampa Family which had not met with the commissioner's approval. It appeared in the Piccolo inventario dei dipinti at the villa di Lesa with the title "A canvas representing an episode in the History of Milan", before entering…
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