Milan - Brera Picture Gallery Pinacoteca di Brera
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On the first floor of the Palazzo di Brera is the Pinacoteca di Brera, one of Italy's finest picture galleries, which contains among many other exhibits futuristic paintings of the 20th century. The picture collection was founded as a didactic collection of the Art Academy and its principal exhibits were formed by pictures from churches and acquisition from Rome.
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Notable among 15th century pictures are works by Mantegna ("Madonna in a Ring of Angels' Heads" and "Lamentation"). The Venetian masters are represented by Carlo Crivelli (including "Enthroned Madonna della Candeletta"), Gentile ("Preaching of St Mark in Alexandria"), Giovanni Bellini ("Lamentation" and two Madonnas) and Cima da Conegliano. Pictures from later periods include works by Paolo Veronese, Titian ("Count Antonio Porcia" and "St Jerome") and Tintoretto ("Finding of St Mark's Body" and "Descent from the Cross", and portraits by Lorenzo Lotto and Giovanni Battista Moroni.
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Address:
Friends of Brera Picture Gallery, Via Brera 28, I-20100 Milan, Italy
Hours:
January 1 to December 31: 8:30am-7:15pm; Closed: Mon
Always closed on: New Year's Day (January 1), May Day / Labor Day (May 1), Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Tips: Last admission one half-hour before close.
Disability Access: Full facilities for persons with disabilities.
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