Art gallery of Brera

The Pinacothèque of Brera is to the 28 Via Brera, in the district of the same name with Milan in Italy. It is museum of an old and modern art.

One finds there in particular works of: Giovanni Bellini, Umberto Boccioni, Sandro Botticelli, Agnolo Bronzino, Caravage, Carlo Carrà, Piero della Francesca, Léonard de Vinci, Andrea Mantegna, Francesco Menzocchi, Amedeo Modigliani, Marco Palmezzano, Raphaël, Rubens, Tintoret, Alvise Vivarini, etc

The monument

The art gallery is located in the palate Brera baroque where one also finds the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, the bone di Brera, the Orto Botanico, the Istituto Lombardo di Scienze E Lettere and the Accademia di Belle Arti.

In antiquity, the district " braida" , become Brera was a zone of market-gardeners, which was crossed by channels. It is attested that certain works were discharged by boat with the " Tumbun de San Marc" , of the name of the very close church, in the court of the palate.

The Milanese palates were designed like those of Venice, with a monumental entry side channel and a service entrance side street. It is only at the time of Mussolini, that the majority of the channels were filled then covered by new broader arteries road, which caused to reverse the direction of use of the palates.

The palate indeed comprises a beautiful monumental court with gantries in the center of which a Napoleon Bonaparte is, of Antonio Canova which represented it with naked half, as an Roman Emperor.

It was built on an old convent. In 1571, by papal bubble of the pope Gregoire XIII, which allots it to the Jésuites, which made a university of it.

The building is increased in 1591, then entrusted in 1615 to the architect Francesco Maria Richini, then with his/her son, finally with Gerolamo Quadrio and Pietro Giorgio Rossone, to be finished only in 1776. The order of the Jésuites was abolished in 1773 and the palate was given to the government.

In 1776, Marie-Therese of Austria there instituted the Scuole Palatine , with a library and widens the Orto Botanico . It also created the Accademia di Brera , with sculptures, fabrics, engravings.

The Napoleonean period was the occasion many plunders in the castles and especially the seizure for the revolutionary period of the inheritance of the Italian churches to feed the French museums, but it is also at that time that the museums in each big city of the Empire were made up. With Brera, the gallery of the Accadémie of the fine arts of Venice and the Pinacothèque of Bologna played also the same part of turntable in the inventory and the sorting of works. The first works exposed to Brera come in particular from the church Saint Cosme and Damien, then removed.

Eugene de Beauharnais, viceroy of Italy, was devoted to this task. The church of Brera was destroyed to constitute the new rooms known as Napoleonean, whose inauguration took place the August 15th 1809. The inauguration of the royal and national Art gallery of the kingdom of Italy took place the April 20th 1810. The collection Giacomo Sannazzari, bequeathed to the Hospital of Milan was thus repurchased by Brera with the Viceroy. It included/understood in particular the Mariage of the Virgin of Raphaël.

The museum also profited from Flemish works sent by Paris, of which Cène of Rubens, sent in 1813.

Contrary, restitutions were ordered by the Congrès of Vienna. The Austrians however made still several acquisitions for the museum starting from 1820. The activity of the art gallery, closed with the public, knew a period of lull then, because it was not whereas a department of the Academy of the fine arts.

It is only with Italian independence, that the museum will awake, finally open to the public in 1860.

In 1926, the creation of the association of the Friends of Brera made it possible to acquire new works of which " Cène " Caravage

During the First World War, the distance of works with Rome allowed thereafter work of embellishment and the acquisition of Venetian works, under the direction of Ettore Modigliani of 1908 to 1914.

In the same way, during the second world war, works were temporarily evacuated in various points of the north of Italy. The palate was severely damaged by the bombardments. To reopening, after an important rebuilding of several rooms, entered of modern works of Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Umberto Boccioni and Giovanni Segantini. The museum also was reorganized by regional schools and was reopened with the public in 1950.

The repurchase in 1974, of the Palazzo Citerrio adjacent reduced only hardly the problems of space which always know the various institutions sheltered by Palazzo Brera, in particular the botanical garden and the observatory as well as the academy and the library.

The museum, in spite of limits of budget and space, offers in particular a good vision of the painting lombarde. It is one of the principal Italian museums.

Principal works

  • Anonymous lombard (Maestro della Pala Sforzesca): Pala Sforzesca (1494)

  • Bramante :

    • Cristo went colonna
    • Fresque Uomini of weapon of the house Gaspare Visconti

  • Caravaggio : the supper of Emmaus

  • Correggio : Adorazione dei Magi

  • Pietro da Cortona : Madonna E santi

  • Carlo Crivelli :

    • Madonna beyond candeletta
    • Trittico di Camerino
    • Incoronazione della Vergine

  • Bernardino Luini :

    • Madonna del Roseto
    • Frescos of Santa Maria della Pace
    • Frescos of the house of Rabia
    • Christ dead
    • Madonna idiot Bambino
    • San Bernardino da Siena

  • Raphaël : Lo sposalizio della Vergine (1504)

  • Rubens : Ultima Cena (~1632)

  • Tintoret :

    • Ritrovamento LED corpo di San Marco
    • Pietà

  • Titien :

    • San Girolamo
    • Ritratto di Antonio da Porcia

  • Véronèse :

    • Cristo nell' orto
    • Cena in put di Simone
    • Pala di S. Antonio abate

  • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo :

    • Madonna E animates purganti
    • the tentazioni di sant' Antonio

Bonds

  • Official site of Pinacoteca di Brera
  • Site of the friends of Brera
  • nonofficial Site

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