Pinacoteca di Brera
Pinacoteca di Brera stands in the heart of Milan as a national gallery of ancient and modern paintings. Its thirty-eight rooms occupy the historic Brera Palace, a complex covering more than 24,000 square metres. Venetian and Lombard schools meet twentieth-century works, alongside paintings by Caravaggio, Raphael, and Rembrandt.
The palace grew from Humiliati lands into a Jesuit centre of learning after 1571. Francesco Maria Richini shaped the present structure from 1591, and Giuseppe Piermarini completed it in 1776. Empress Maria Theresa of Austria established the gallery that same year, while donations, acquisitions, and works taken from churches and monasteries during the Napoleonic era expanded its collection.
Other institutions share the complex, including the Braidense National Library, Brera Observatory, and Academy of Fine Arts. Temporary exhibitions from the Brera Mai Vista project bring restored works from the reserves into view.
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