Pinacoteca di Brera
The Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan is one of the most important art museums in Italy. It has its seat in the baroque " Palazzo di Brera ". The main focus of the exhibition is on Northern Italian painting from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, but the Trecento , the other Italian art landscapes and more recent art eras are also represented alongside early antiquity and Dutch baroque painting.
history
The painting collection goes back to the founding of an art academy ( Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ) in 1776, when Lombardy belonged to the Habsburg Empire . At the instigation of Maria Theresa , a collection of plaster casts as well as prints and drawings was added to the academy.
The basis for the collection was formed by altarpieces, which were added to the collection after Napoleon closed monasteries and churches . While the best and most famous works were brought to the Louvre in Paris , the images disdained by Napoleon formed the basis of the great collections in Milan, Venice and Bologna .
After the Congress of Vienna the works of art were supposed to be returned to their previous owners, but Brera was able to keep most of the objects and expand their holdings through donations. In 1882 the academy and the museum were divided into two independent organizations, with regrettable consequences for the collection, which was partly dispersed and distributed to other museums.
During the First World War , the collection was brought to Rome for security reasons and returned to a newly renovated house after the end of the war. The collection survived the Second World War unscathed as it was brought to safety in time while the building was badly damaged. Thanks to generous public and private funding, the building was renovated and reopened to visitors.
The Palazzo also houses the Academy of Fine Arts , the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere and several other cultural institutions.
Exhibited works (selection)
- Sofonisba Anguissola : Self-Portrait, around 1561/1571
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Gentile Bellini :
- The sermon of St. Mark in Alexandria
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Giovanni Bellini :
- Pietà, around 1470
- Mary with child, around 1486
- Mary with Child in a Landscape, 1510
- Umberto Boccioni : Self-Portrait in Front of a Suburb, 1908
- Agnolo Bronzino : Andrea Doria as Neptune , approx. 1540–1550
- Antonio Canova : Statue of Napoleon
- Caravaggio : Christ in Emmaus, 1606
- Francesco del Cossa : St. Peter; John the Baptist, 1473
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Francesco Filippini
- Il Maglio
- La Strigliatura della canapa
- Piero della Francesca : Pala Montefeltro (Sacra Conversazione)
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Francesco Hayez
- The kiss , 1859
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Andrea Mantegna :
- Polyptych of St. Luke, around 1453–1455
- Lamentation of Christ , around 1464–1500
- Marco Palmezzano : Madonna with Child and Saints, 1493
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Giambattista Pittoni
- Bacchus and Ariadne
- Hannibal swears hatred of the Romans
- Raffael : The Marriage of Mary
- Peter Paul Rubens : The Last Supper, around 1632
- Tintoretto : The recovery of the dead St. Mark, 1563/64
- Titian : St. Jerome, around 1555
literature
- Eugen Külborn (editor): Galeria Mundi. A trip through the museums . Frankfurt am Main: Hoechst AG, 1981, without ISBN (p. 216–221 Pinacoteca di Brera )
Web links
- Website of the Pinacoteca di Brera (English, Italian)
- Pinacoteca di Brera . In: mailand.org
- Pinacoteca di Brera . In: milano24ore.de
Coordinates: 45 ° 28 ′ 19 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 17 ″ E