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Pelagio Palagi placed the sculptural depiction of Hospitality in front of the sculpture by Antonio Galli depicting the Allegory of Friendship when the ownership of the villa was transferred to the noble Traversi family. This was specially commissioned in the first half of the 19th century to Luigi Marchesi, brother of the famous sculptor, Pompeo Marchesi, active for over 40 years as a sculptor of the \u201cfactory\u201d of the Cathedral of Milan.
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\nBoth artists who were very young at the time of the commission of the Desio Villa, quickly evolved from the placid neoclassical style to romantic naturalism, up to the realistic outcome of \u201cLove Craze\u201d by Antonio Galli displayed at the Gallery of Modern Art of Milan.
\nThe Allegory of Hospitality, however, is characterized by a posture and a strong classical expression. Monumental in size, as requested by the dramatic role it held as the entrance to the Villa. Hospitality is a common subject in neoclassical decorations for fa\u00e7ades of villas and aristocratic buildings, which have as illustrious examples, the reliefs dedicated to the episode of \u201cPhilimon and Baucis,\u201d model of charitable hospitality narrated in Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses, and in the \u201cProci suitors in the house of Ulysses,\u201d an example of hospitality betrayed, sculpted for Villa Belgiojoso Bonaparte in Milan. These were designed with the refined taste of Parini who, in turn, was inspired by the classic concept of Xenia, the unwritten law for the protection of travellers, which accordingly states that the guest is sacred and protected by the gods, whatever their identity. Guests and hosts are in fact connected by a bond of mutual respect and the link is established by the exchange of a gift, as may be remembered by the statue with closed hands in the Allegory of Desio.
\nThe allegorical meaning of Hospitality, therefore, is to be read as part of a single project inextricably linked to the figurative representation of Friendship. Both sculptures, in fact, constituted a clear restoration of the models in Milan and a warning to those who are about to go into noble residences. These, in fact, would be greeted with extreme courtesy, but if they betray the trust that the owners placed in them, they would be hit by the same fate that awaited the Proci and the Phrygians as in the works of Homer and the Ovid.
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