Brera Art Gallery

Introduction

Housed in a Baroque palace that previously served as a monastery, the Brera Art Gallery holds one of the most important art collections in Italy, displaying 400 paintings with numerous masterpieces by artists such as Raphael (The Marriage of the Virgin), Caravaggio (Supper at Emmaus), Mantegna (the Dead Christ), Bellini (the Pietà), Canaletto, Tintoretto (the Discovery of the Body of Saint Mark), Raphael (The Marriage of the Virgin), Piero della Francesca (Brera Altarpiece), Rubens, and many others, such as the Kiss by Hayez. The collection spans from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, with a particular focus on the Lombard and Venetian schools of the 15th and 16th centuries, but it also includes the Bolognese schools, Flemish art, and even artists of the last century such as Braque, Picasso, de Chirico or Modigliani.
This art gallery was founded in 1776 in a former Jesuit college, whose role was initially intended for the training of students of the Academy of Fine Arts. When Napoleon proclaimed Milan the capital of his Kingdom of Italy, he moved there works seized from churches and the nobility. Moreover, a statue of the emperor made by Antonio Canova stands in the courtyard (in fact a bronze copy of the marble original). The palace is also home to the Academy of Fine Arts and the Braidense National Library.

Brera Palace

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Information

• Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org
• Official website: https://pinacotecabrera.org