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The Pinacoteca di Brera is located in the Brera Palace, ancient convent of the Umiliati order from the 1300. Here are also located other cultural institutions, as the Library, the Astronomic Observatory, the Botanic garden, the Lombard Institute of Sciences and Letters, and the Fine Arts Academy.
The Pinacoteca is the main museum of Milan, and one of the most important of the world for its prestigious collections of ancient and modern painting. Collections come from the concentration in this building of painting required to churches and convents during Napoleon government. As in Venice and Bologna, this art gallery had specific didactic purposes under Fine Arts Gallery direction. Within a few years, collections got enriched allowing the exhibition of a series of portraits and self-portraits in four room of the first floor, and some works that became later the symbol of the museum: Sposalizio della Vergine by Raffaello; Madonna col Bambino by Gentile Bellini, and Crocefissione by Bramantino.
When Milan became capital of Italy Kingdom, some of the most important paintings required in Italy came to Brera; most of them arrived from Veneto, from the Sampieri Gallery in Bologna, and from the Quadreria Vescovile in Milan. In 1813, thanks to a pact with the Louvre Museum, Brera got 5 paintings by Rubens, Joardens, Van Dyck and Rembrandt, to represent the flemish school of the XVII century.
On 1882, Brera got independence from the Fine Arts Gallery. The renewed and inaugurated museum by middle 1950 got a modern character and, after the widening to the 1700's Citterio palace, the Art Gallery acquired new spaces.
The exceptional artistic collection is shown in 31 rooms of the first floor. Rooms are chronologically and geographiccally ordered, by regional schools, as follows:
Donazione Jesi: XX Century paintings and sculptures
Micchirolo Chapel, XIII and XVI Centuries Italian paintings (Giovanni da Milano, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Gentile da Fabriano)
XV and XVI Centuries Venetian paitings and portraits (Mantegna, Bellini, Carpaccio, Lotto)
XVI Century Venetian paintings (Tiziano, Tintoretto, Veronese, Savoldo)
XIV and XVI Centuries Lombard paitings and frescoes (Foppa, Bramantino, i Campi, Bergognone, Luini)
XV and XVI Centuries Ferrara and Emilia paintings, and politticoes from Le Marche (Del Cossa, De Roberti, Crivelli, Correggio)
Piero della Francesca, Raffaello and Bramante and XV and XVI CenturiesCentral Italy painting(Signorelli, Bronzino)
XVII Century Central Italy Painting, Caravaggio and caravaggeschi (Carracci, Reni, Ribeira)
XVII Century Lombard, Flemish and Italian paintings (Procaccini, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt)
XVIII Century Italian Sacred Paiting, Venetian paintings, and Italian gender paiting (Tiepolo, Canaletto, Guardi, Crespi)
XIX Century Italian paitings (Appiani, Hayez, Pellizza da Volpedo, Boccioni).