Pinacoteca di Brera

The Brera Art Gallery is located inside the Palazzo Brera, it was founded in 1776 by Maria Theresa of Austria. It was created to present a collection of the heritage of ancient and modern art. Currently, the art gallery houses paintings and drawings by artists of the last century. Admission to the art gallery is free of charge.

Milan, the Pinacoteca of Brera

The collections of the Pinacoteca of Brera are born from the concentration of paintings requisite following emanation of suppression laws about churches and convents in the Napoleonic age (1798) and got rich when the Belle Arti Academy was assigned to collaborate; some works then became the symbol of the museum: The Wedding of the Virgo (1504) of Raffaello; The Madonna with his Child (1510) of Gentile Bellini; The Crucifixion di Bramantino.

With the crowning of Napoleone (1805), the most important paintings by the departments of the Kingdom flowed in the Pinacoteca. Many works from Veneto, some paintings of the Carracci, Guido Reni, Francesco Albani and Guercino reached Brera.

In 1813, thanks to an accord with the Museum of the Louvre, five paintings of Rubens, Joardens, Van Dyck and Rembrandt to represent the Flemish school of the XVII century reached Milan. In the same years frescos of Bernardino Luini, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Vincenzo Foppa, Borgognone and Bramantino came from various churches the giving origin so to one of the most greater collections.

From 1815, with the restoration, the Dead Christ of Mantegna, and The Madonna of the Roseto of Luini, reach Brera in 1826.

In 1882 the Brera’s Pinacoteca was made autonomous and separated from the Belle Arti Academy which big part of the nineteenth-century paintings was submitted. The museum was entirely rearranged and enlarged, thanks also to purchases of fundamental works like pictures by Correggio, Pietro Longhi, Piazzetta, Tiepolo, Canaletto andFattori, as well as the Supper in Emmaus of Caravaggio and The Vine-trellis of Silvestro Lega, purchased thanks to the Friends of Brera Association and the Milanese Museums.

The renewed museum and inaugurated in the of 1950, it assumes a modern character. With the enlargement of museum in the eighteenth-century Citterio Palace, the Pinacoteca purchased new spaces extending itself with most greater Italian artists works of first nine-hundred, as Boccioni, Braque, Carrà, De Pisis, Marino Marini, Modigliani and Morandi.