{"id":9454,"date":"2024-11-06T09:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T09:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinacotecabrera.org\/about-us\/storia\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T14:20:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T14:20:32","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pinacotecabrera.org\/en\/about-us\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Pinacoteca di Brera was officially established in 1809, even though a first heterogeneous collection with educational purpose existed already from 1776 \u2013 and then increased in the following years \u2013 alongside the Accademia di Belle Arti, requested by Mary Therese of Austria to offer the students the opportunity to study lofty masterpieces of art close up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Brera become a museum to host the most important works of art from all of the areas conquered by the French armies. So unlike other important museums in Italy such as the Uffizi, Brera did not start out life as the private collection of a prince or nobleman but as the product of a deliberate policy decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Palazzo Brera in an 18th-century print and the floor plan of the Pinacoteca in 1822<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Minister Nasi visits the reordered Picture Gallery. June 7, 1903<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Brera reordered: top left the rooms of the Venetian painters, below the room of Mantegna, Crivelli and Giovanni Bellini. At right the room of Lombard frescoes, June 7, 1903<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Paintings confiscated from churches and convents throughout Lombardy with the religious orders\u2019 dissolution began to pour into the museum in the early years of the 19th century, soon to be joined by artworks of similar provenance from other areas of the Kingdom of Italy. This explains why the collection comprises chiefly religious works, many of them large altarpieces, and accounts for Brera\u2019s special aura on which later acquisitions have had only a minor impact.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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More vintage photos of the Pinacoteca di Brera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Pinacoteca di Brera<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Via Brera, 28
20121 Milan (Italy)
fax: +39 02 720 011 40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secretary
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Reserve<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

brerabooking.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call Center Pinacoteca di Brera for assistance with reservations<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

(Mon-Sun, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.)
tel: +39 02 72105 141
E-mail:\u00a0pinacotecadibrera@ operalaboratori.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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