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C'era una volta nella biblioteca

Appunti per una resistenza culturale #22
Once upon a time in the library

For all the children of the world
The artist Hervé Tullet, to read together at all ages and in all languages of the world!

Appunti per una resistenza culturale #18
Once upon a time in the library

For all the children of the world
Baku – Text by James m. Bradburne

“It was the story of the Baku, a very strange animal that only came out at night, whose existence was only guessed at, because he had never been seen in waking life.”

Appunti per una resistenza culturale #14
Once upon a time in the library

The Night Garden – text by James m. Bradburne

“There was no denying it was hot. No-one could remember a summer quite like it. Even the old people – fathers, mothers, impossibily old uncles – could not among them remember a summer so hot…”

Appunti per una resistenza culturale #13

A new description for kids but not only: “The Fruit Seller”! The painter put a lot of fruits in the painting, can you recognize all of them?

Ilaria Pelosi
Dipartimento didattica – Amici di Brera e dei musei milanesi

Appunti per una resistenza culturale #7

“I would like to show you one of the most famous masterpiece of the Pinacoteca di Brera: the Marriage of the Virgin by Raphael”

Ilaria Pelosi
Didactique Department
Amici di Brera e dei musei milanesi

Appunti per una resistenza culturale #6
Once upon a time in the library

“Once upon a time, but not a long time, and not so far away, lived a girl called Nicole”

James M. Bradburne
Direttore Pinacoteca di Brera e Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense

BRERA/MUSICA – Années de pèlérinage. Deuxième Année. Italie
Sposalizio, Franz Liszt

The Brera Gallery’s innovative music project, Brera/Musica, is proud to premiere the new video ‘Sposalizio’, the opening work of the 2nd Year of Pilgrimage (Italy) by Franz Liszt – Italian painting, sculpture and poetry transformed into music.

Emma and the Blue Baku

BRERA/MUSIC | Concerts for families and children – Discover the story of “Emma and the Blue Baku” in the second Brera/Music concert dedicated to families and children.

Fifth Dialogue “New Perspectives on the 18th Century. Pompeo Batoni and Milan” | Video Teaser

On the occasion of the new dialogue will be exploring the 18th century, the era that witnessed the birth of museums in general and of the Pinacoteca di Brera in particular.

Fourth Dialogue “Around Lotto” | Video Teaser

From 27 March to 11 June 2017, the Pinacoteca di Brera hosts a new and highly original dialogue among masterpieaces in the history of art: “Around Lotto” will be showcasing paintings from the museum’s own collection in dialogue with other “guest” pictures, continuing a tradition of dialogues launched by James Bradburne, the new director of the Pinacoteca di Brera and of the Biblioteca Braidense.

#Kissmebrera video

On the occasion of Valentine’s Day the Pinacoteca di Brera launched a new initiative dedicated to The Kiss by Francesco Hayez.
Here is the video of all your kisses in front of the masterpiece, shared using the hashtag #kissmebrera.
Happy Valentine’s Day!

Welcome to Brera

Official video of the Pinacoteca di Brera

Third dialogue “Caravaggio. Readings and Re-readings” – Video Teaser

From November 10th to February 5th the Pinacoteca di Brera will be hosting the third exceptional dialogue between one of the museum’s in-house masterpieces and other “guest” works. The star of this edition is one of the Pinacoteca’s most celebrated paintings, the Supper at Emmaus by the Lombard master Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio.

James M. Bradburne presents the second dialogue Andrea Mantegna: New Perspectives

James M. Bradburne, general director of the Pinacoteca Brera and Biblioteca Braidense, presents the second dialogue Andrea Mantegna: New Perspectives.

Video Teaser – Second dialogue. Andrea Mantegna: New Perspectives

From 16 June to 25 September 2016 the Pinacoteca di Brera will be hosting a spectacular new dialogue between two masterpieces in the history of world art: Andrea Mantegna’s Lamentation over the Dead Christ, one of the Milan picture gallery’s most emblematic works and a universal icon of the Renaissance, and the Corpse of Christ (or The Body of Christ and the Implements of His Martyrdom), a version of the same subject painted by Annibale Carracci in 1583–5 and on loan from the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart.

James M. Bradburne presents the first dialogue between Perugino and Raphael

James M. Bradburne, general director of the Pinacoteca Brera and Biblioteca Braidense, presents the first dialogue between the master and the pupil: Perugino and Raphael, the Marriage of the Virgin.

First dialogue Raphael and Perugino | Video Teaser

Perugino and Raphael, the Marriage of the Virgin. A dialogue between the master and the pupil

Picasso, La loge (Le balcon)

Rediscovered in Brera’s storage facility, this painting by Pablo Picasso tells us far more than we can grasp at first sight

The Kiss, Francesco Hayez

The video by VIVA srl for the Press Conference Dedicated to the new re-installation of the Kiss by Hayez.

Art lessons by Dario Fo

Thanks to Eugenia Grassi for the press conference video, February 20th, 2015

Scopri le Marche a Brera

Un video per raccontare quante opere Napoleone Bonaparte portò via da questa regione per esporle alla Pinacoteca di Brera