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7 Pinacoteca di Brera Portrait of
Moisè Kisling
Amedeo Modigliani
The Brera art gallery holds one of Italy’s most painted this work
important art collections, featuring masterpieces in 1915, reflecting
by leading Italian artists from the 13th to the 20th his interest in
centuries, including Raphael, Mantegna, Piero African sculpture.
(Room 10)
della Francesca and Caravaggio. The Pinacoteca
is housed in the late 16th–early 17th-century
palazzo built for the Jesuits in place of the Santa
Maria di Brera Humiliati monastery. The Jesuits
made this into a cultural centre by establishing a
prestigious school, a library and the astronomical
observatory – all activities supported by Empress Maria
Theresa of Austria, who founded the Accademia di Belle
Arti after the Jesuit order was suppressed (1773).

Finding the Body
of St Mark
The bold perspective
and almost super natural
light in the room where the
saint’s body is found make
this canvas (1562–6) one of
Tintoretto’s masterpieces.
(Room 9)

Mocchirolo
Chapel
Key
Twin staircases
Jesi Collection (20th-century art)
lead to the entrance
13th–15th-century Italian painting to the gallery on
15th–16th-century Venetian painting the first floor.
15th–16th-century Lombard painting
15th–16th-century Central
Italian painting
17th–18th-century Italian, Flemish
and Dutch painting
18th–19th-century Italian painting

The Kiss
This canvas by Francesco Hayez
(1859) is one of the most reproduced
19th-century Italian paintings –
a patriotic and sentimental work
epitomizing the optimism that
prevailed after Italy’s unification.
(Room 37)

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