1440c.1

Fresco at Casa Borromeo shows Female Ball Players

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	FemalesFemales
Location
City/State/Country:	Milan, Italy
Modern Address
Game
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
Holiday
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Text	In a ground floor room at the Casa Borromeo in Milan, Italy is a room with wall murals depicting the amusements of Fifteenth Century nobility. One of the images depicts five noble women playing some sort of bat and ball game. One woman holds a bat and is preparing to hit a ball to a group of four women who prepare to catch the ball using the folds of their dresses. This Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs published an article about the Casa Borromeo frescoes in 1918 and included a black and white photo of the female ball players. A color version of the fresco is available online.
Sources	Lionel Cust, "The Frescoes in the Casa Borromeo at Milan," The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 33, No. 184 (July 1918), 8. Link to color image: http://www.storiadimilano.it/Arte/giochiborromeo/giochiborromeo.htm
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Submitted by	Deb Shattuck
Submission Note	Posted 10/4/2013
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