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Art and Culture
Gallery of Modern Art
In the Civic Gallery of Modern Art, located in the Villa Reale of the via Palestro, the development of nineteenth-century art is documented, from Milanese neoclassicism to the Italian Romantic movement, the realistic program of the "schools" (Piedmont, Lombard, the Tuscan Macchiaioli, Posillipo), the French Impressionist influence in Italy, Realism and Divisionism. The exhibition rooms of the villa have been decorated with paintings, sculptures, furniture, and candelabra consistent with the atmosphere, thus exemplifying the refined Lombard style of decoration from the Neoclassical Age to the Romantic Age.
Museum of Contemporary Art
The CIMAC (Civic Museum of Contemporary Art), inaugurated in 1984, occupies the second-floor rooms of the Palazzo Reale. On exposition are works of Boccioni and of Futurism; of Modigliani, Gino Rossi, Severini; of artists belonging in varying degrees to the twentieth century or to the period falling between the two wars (Carrà, Martini, Sironi, Funi, Rosai, Tosi, Campigli, Guidi, Morandi, De Pisis). Also documented are aspects of the twentieth-century reaction: from the first Italian abstractionism (Licini, Soldati, Rho, Radice, Galli), to the Roman School (from Scipione and Mafai to Pirandello), until the recent works of the Italian panorama. Also worth mentioning is the recent acquisition of the Jucker collection, with 40 works, among the most important of the panorama of twentieth-century artists, like Mondrian, Kandinsky, Picasso, Matisse, Klee, Sironi, Morandi.
Ambrosiana Art Gallery
The Ambrosian Gallery, together with a library rich in precious manuscripts, is located in the palace constructed by order of Cardinal Borromeo (that of the Promessi Sposi) in 1609. Here one finds paintings, scuptures and objects, especially from the Lombard and Venetian schools of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, and a collection of drawings. Among the most important works: "Madonna with Child" by Botticelli, "Madonna, Angels and Saints" by Bergognone, "Adoration of the Shepherds" by Bramantino, "The Music" by Leonardo, "Beatrice d'Este" by De Pretis, the drawings of the School of Athens by Raphael, "Basket of Fruit" by Caravaggio, "Epiphany" by Tiziano, "Rest during the Flight from Egypt" by Bassano, "Presentation at the Temple" by Tiepolo.
Brera Art Gallery
The Brera Palace, housing the Gallery, is composed primarily of works of the Lombard and Venetian schools of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. Among the most important are the "Portrait of Portia" and "San Girolamo" by Tiziano, the "Pietà" by L. Lotto, "Dinner in the House of the Pharisee" and "Jesus in the Garden" by Veronese, "Discovery of the Body of Saint Mark" and the "Deposition" by Tintoretto, "Madonna with Child among the Cherubin" and "Dead Christ" by Mantegna, the "Pietà" by Bellini, "Adoration of the Magi" and "Nativity" by Correggio, the "Crucifixion" by Bramantino, "Wedding Ceremony of the Virgin" by Raphael, "Madonna Enthroned, Angels, Saints, and Federico da Montefeltro" by Piero della Francesca.
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