Pinacoteca di Brera

Milan's most outstanding museum, Brera is recognized as one of the major art collections in the world. It was initially founded by the Hapsburgs in the late 18th century, as a small collection of paintings, sculptures and plaster copies to be used by the Accademia's student body.
Its patrimony came from churches and the estates of Catholic clerical orders that had been suppressed not long before (the building which housed the Accademia had formerly been the Milanese headquarters of the Jesuit order).
The art collection was dramatically enlarged during the Napoleonic era between 1799- 1815, when it received an extraordinary number of art works confiscated from all over the North of Italy.
The collections are particularly important in understanding the history of the visual art in northern Italy between the 14th and 18th centuries. There are also excellent examples of Renaissance works, and famous, if not numerous, paintings by other Italian and foreign Old Masters.

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Contact Information

Pinacoteca di Brera
via Brera, 28
20121 Milano

Tel. +392722631

http://www.brera.beniculturali.i