PINACOTECA DI BRERA
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The most important names in Italian painting are on display in one of Italy's most important art galleries.
The National Art Library and the Astronomical Observatory are housed in a 17th century palace. In the entrance courtyard stands the statue of Napoleon as Caesar. The French emperor created this art gallery to exhibit works looted from churches and monasteries. Today, it contains over 400 works by Lombard and Italian artists from the 14th to the 20th century.
Rooms 1, 2, 3, 4. After a first section dedicated to Lombard frescoes (15th-16th centuries), the Italian painting, from the 12th to the 15th century, including the altarpieces of Gentile da Fabriano.
Rooms 5 to 9. Venetian painting is marked here by the tragic expressiveness of Giovanni Bellini's Pietà and by the admirable perspectives in Mantegna's Christ the Dead, Tintoretto's Miracle of St. Mark , or the Bellini Brothers' St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria from Egypt.
Rooms 15 to 19. The painters Vincenzo Foppa and Bernardino Luini are the main representatives of the Lombard school.
Rooms 27 to 29. Two masterpieces: Piero della Francesca's Montefeltro Altarpiece and Raphael's The Marriage of the Virgin, so delicate in the rendering of expressions. His characters seem to evolve in a Renaissance architecture reminiscent of Bramante. Caravaggio's The Meal at Emmaus, meanwhile, is bathed in a perfect rendering of light and shadow.
Rooms 30 to 38. In the last rooms, the exhibition focuses on Dutch painting (16th-18th centuries), with Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck, 19th and 20th century painting and the art restoration workshop.
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