The Pinacoteca de Brera is a major art gallery of the Northern Italy. It situated at the heart of the Milan. It has a very comprehensive collection of Italian paintings. It was opened to the public in 1809. It is part of the Palazzo di Brera.

1. Pinacoteca de Brera
An Art Gallery of Northern Italy
First created 10 Oct 2021. Version 1.0 - 23 Nov 2021. Daperro. London.
The courtyard entrance to the gallery

2. Lonrenzetti 1340
The collection in Brera is mostly Italian
paintings. It is a good place to trace the
development of Italian paintings.

3. Follower of Giotto c1340
European paintings began to
appear in churches during
the 13th and 14th century
replacing mosaic and fresco.

4. Giovanni Bellini 1460

5. Bembo 1460

6. Piero della Francesca 1472

7. Piero della Francesca 1472

8. Mantegna 1475

9. Montegna 1485
Andrea Mantegna (c1431-1506)
was a pioneer of spatial illusion,
using visual distortion to create
the impression of depth on a two
dimensional surface.
He was also a student of Roman
archaeology and son-in-law of
Jacopo Bellini.
In this painting, his Madonna
appears to be a copy of a statue
rather than painting of a real life
model.

10. Crivelli 1488

11. Montagna 1499

12. Carpaccio 1502

13. Raphael 1504

14. Raphael 1504 Detail

15. Bellini 1504

16. Veneto 1520
The woman is presented in
the guise of St Cecilia, a
typical example of 16C “court
art.”
The half-figures of woman in
the painting was painted with
a strong personalities, looking
strict at the viewer.
Bartolomeo Veneto was
probably trained with Gentile
Bellini. He began to develop
his own style in 1505. By
1520 was a successful
portrait painter in Milan. His
style shows the influence of
Leonardo da Vinci.

17. Luini 1520

18. Dornicke 1520

19. Bordone 1520
Paris Bordone (1500-72) was a
student of Titan. This is one of
his most celebrated works. The
work shows venal love.
Behind was a third person in the
background with an artist’s beret
suggesting that it may be a self-
portrait of the artist himself.

20. Campi 1530

21. This painting with the Fruit Seller was one of four paintings of the seasons of a year.
Campi 1578

22. Pitati 1540

23. Ferrari 1540

24. Auguissola 1560
Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625)
is one of the earliest female
professional painter. She also met
Michelangelo. She was also
recruited into the Spanish court.
She came to a relatively poor
noble family. She served as
student of art with the local
painters. She went to Rome where
she painted the Duke of Alba. In
1559, she became a lady-in-
waiting to the Queen of Spain.
Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia
Fontana were two of the earliest
female painters in Western
paintings.

25. Fontana 1598

26. Veronese 1567
Paolo Veronese was a Venetian and a major second generation master of the
late Renaissance. He was a colourist and painted a large number of huge
‘architectural’ canvases, like the one above.

27. Veronese 1582

28. Veronese 1585
An example of his huge ‘architectural’ canvas like the one above.

29. Caravaggio 1606

30. Procaccini / Cerano
/ Morazzone 1620

31. Van Dyck 1634
Anthony van Dyck was born in
1599 in Antwerp, now part of
Belgium. He was the seventh
child of a wealthy silk merchant
family.
At the age of ten, he was sent to
a painter of small cabinet
picture. By the age of 19 van
Dyck was registered as a master
in the Antwerp Saint Lue’s Guild.
In his late teen, Van Dyck was
active as Rubens’ most
important assistant. At 21 van
Dyck made his first trip to
England.

32. Bachenis 1650

33. Guercino 1657

34. Cagnacci 1660
Cleopatra (69-30BC)
was the last effective
queen of ancient Egypt.
She was descendant of
Ptolemy, a Greek
general and companion
of Alexander the Great.
Cleopatra killed herself
following the defeat of
her beloved Mark
Antony at the battle of
Actium, with the
Roman.

35. Ligari 1724
The portrait must have been
painted before 1724, when the
artist’s father died.
The family took its name from
the small district of Ligari in
Sondrio. At the age of twelve,
Giovan went to study in Rome,
where he was a pupil of Lazzaro
Baldi, a follower of Pietro da
Cortona and absorbed the
influence of Baroque painting.

36. Canaletto 1740

37. Bellotto 1744

38. Longhi 1746

39. Ceruti 1755

40. Hayez 1859

41. Estienne 1865

42. Lega 1868

43. Fattori 1887

44. Volpedo 1899
The message of the painting is clear. It shows unity, power, discipline, orderly etc.

45. The interior of Pinacoteco di Brera. Milan
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Music – Guitar Mood. When You Are Sweet Sixteen

46. Rome’s Art Gallery