The kind of nineteenth-century culture reflected in the house of Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi was aimed at finding artistic inspiration in the past. This approach, employed in a strictly Neo-Renaissance style by the two noble brothers, is part of a larger phenomenon called "historicism" that pervaded a great part of nineteenth-century culture in Italy and abroad. Nevertheless, information of quality on Italy or Milan in the nineteenth-century is not always easy to find in the internet. With this portal, the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum wants to offer to art lovers and scholars a useful research tool about this century truly crucial in the history of Italy and Milan, in order to favor an understanding of their contribution and role in international culture.