Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
28 Via Brera
Milan
Italy 20121
Tel: 39 02 722 631
www.brera.beniculturali.it
Milan
Italy 20121
Tel: 39 02 722 631
www.brera.beniculturali.it
Concierge.com's insider take:
Milan's most worthwhile picture gallery is housed on the upper story of the city's still-functioning art academy. Take time over rooms six to nine of this chronological collection, home to some real Renaissance gems, including Andrea Mantegna's Dead Christ (a dazzling exercise in foreshortening), Giovanni Bellini's moving Pietà, and Tintoretto's dynamic Miracle of Saint Mark. Other standout canvases in later rooms include Raphael's Marriage of the Virgin and Piero della Francesca's Pala Montefeltro, with its oddly stiff, posed portrait of 15th-century warlord Federico da Montefeltro in celestial company.
Closed Mondays.