The Brera Gallery: The Official GuideThis is the first official guide to Italy's first public museum, the Milan home of famous paintings by Bellini, Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Tintoretto, and Veronese. Room by room, wall by wall, this guide gives detailed information about this magnificent permanent collection spanning the 13th to 20th centuries. The introduction by the Museum Director, Luisa Arrigoni, gives the history of Pinacoteca di Brera. |
Contents
Room I | 9 |
20thcentury paintings and sculptures | 17 |
Room | 49 |
Room V | 62 |
Venetian paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries | 71 |
Venetian paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries | 79 |
Room VII | 91 |
Room Vill | 101 |
Room XXII | 199 |
15th and 16thcent paintings from Ferrara and EmiliaRomagna | 211 |
Room XXIV | 217 |
Room XXVII | 223 |
The painting of Central Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries | 231 |
Room XXIX | 239 |
Room XXX | 247 |
Room XXXI | 255 |
Common terms and phrases
16th century altar altarpiece Andrea Andrea Appiani Antonio artist Bartolomeo Bergamo Bernardino Bologna Bramantino Brera Gallery Brescia Caravaggio Central panel century XXXVIII XXXVII Christ church of San Cima cm Acquired cm Signed lower collection colours composition Conegliano datable dated lower right depicted displayed executed Ferrara figures Flemish formerly Francesco Hayez fresco Giovan Giovan Battista Moroni Giovanni Battista Giovanni Bellini Giuseppe Giuseppe Bossi influence Italian Italy Jacopo landscape Leonardo Lombard Lorenzo Lotto Milan Oil on canvas Oil on panel original outstanding painter Paolo Piero della Francesca Pietro polyptych Portrait Raphael Rome saints Santa Maria Side panels Signed and dated Signed lower right St Jerome St John style Tempera on panel tion Titian Treviso Urbino Venetian painting Venice Virgin and Child XIX XV XVIII XXIX XXVIII XXVII XXVII XXIV XXIII XXVIII XXVII XXIV XXX XXIX XXVIII XXXI XXX XXIX XXXIII XXXI XXX XXXV XXXVI XXXIV XXXVII XXXV XXXVI XXXVIII XXXVII XXXV
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