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Pinacoteca di Brera Introduction

Brera National Library

Oratory of Mocchirolo

Simone da Corbetta, Madonna and Child with Saints and the Patron

Brera Modern

Moretto, The Assumption of the Virgin and Saints

Moretto, The Assumption of the Virgin and Saints

Rembrandt, Portrait of a Young Woman

Giulio Paolini, Athenaeum

Giovanni Estienne, The Third National Shooting Contest in Florence

Piccio, Portrait of Benedetta Carminati Chisoli

Bartolomeo Veneto, Woman playing the Lute

Angelo Ripamonti, Interior of the Pinacoteca di Brera

Andrea Appiani, Self-Portrait

Giuseppe Bossi, Self-Portrait

Giulio Paolini - Giulio Paolini, Athenaeum

Sarah Dunant - Bartolomeo Veneto, Woman playing the Lute

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Madonna and Child

Giovanni Baronzio, Stories from the life of St. Columba

Giovanni da Milano, Christ enthroned with angels

San Verano, St. Veranus

Bernardo Daddi, St. Lawrence

Skies of gold

A picture worth a thousand words

Giovanni da Bologna, Madonna and Child with Angels

Andrea di Bartolo and Giorgio di Andrea, Polyptych

Maestro del Crocifisso di Pesaro, Madonna and Child

Lorenzo Veneziano, Madonna and Child

Bartolomeo and Jacopino da Reggio, Crucifixion, Annunciation and saints

Barnaba da Modena, the Adoration of the shepherds

Gentile da Fabriano, Crucifixion

Nicolò di Pietro, Coronation of the Virgin

Pere Serra, Annunciation

Jacopo Bellini, Madonna and Child

Maestro Giorgio, St. Mark

Antonio Vivarini e Giovanni di Alemagna, Praglia Polyptych

Stefano da Verona, Adoration of the Magi

Holy Gold

Pietro Orioli, Madonna and child with two angels

Luca Signorelli, Nursing Madonna

Luca Signorelli, Flagellation of Christ

Fra Carnevale, st. Peter

Pedro Berruguete, Christ in the tomb with two angels

Maestro di Pratovecchio, Madonna and Child

Benozzo Gozzoli, Christ the Man of sorrows

Benzolo Bozzoli, San Domenico revives Napoleone Orsini

Circle of Perugino, Madonna and Child with angels

Lisa Hilton - Maestro di Pratovecchio,Madonna and Child

Double trouble

Lazzaro Bastiani, Stories from the life of St. Jerome

Andrea Mantegna, St. Luke polyptych

Giovanni Bellini, Pietà

Giovanni Bellini, the Greek Madonna

Andrea Mantegna, Madonna of the cherubim

Andrea Mantegna, Dead Christ

Bartolomeo Montagna, Madonna and Child with saints

Liberale da Verona, St. Sebastian

Alvise Vivarini, Assumption of the Virgin

Andrea Solario, Madonna and Child with Saints

Alvise Vivarini, Christ Blessing

Pordenone, Transfiguration

Sarah Dunant - Giovanni Bellini, Pietà

Sarah Dunant - Andrea Mantegna, Madonna of the Cherubim

Sarah Dunant - Andrea Mantegna, Dead Christ

Sarah Dunant - Liberale da Verona, St. Sebastian

One amongst many

Sarah Dunant - Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child

Lorenzo Lotto, Assumption of the Virgin

Johannes Hispanus, Warrior Saint

Spanish painter (?), Scenes from the life of St. Jerom

Bartolomeo Montagna, St. Jerome in the desert

Cima da Conegliano, St. Jerome in the desert

Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child

Vittore Carpaccio, St. Stephen’s disputation in the sanhedrin

Vittore Carpaccio, Marriage of the Virgin

Vittore Carpaccio, Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple

Sarah Dunant - Cima da Conegliano, St. Jerome in the desert

Sarah Dunant - Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child

Arrigo Cipriani - Vittore Carpaccio, Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple

Are we there yet?

Stefano, what are you saying?

Andrea Mantegna and assistant, Saint Bernardino of Siena with angels

Montagna, Madonna and child enthroned with saint Andrew, saint Monica, saint Ursula and saint Sigismund

Cima da Conegliano, Saint Peter martyr with Saint Nicholas of Bari and Saint Benedict

Cima da Conegliano, Saint Peter enthroned with Saints

Cima da Conegliano, Madonna and Child enthroned with saint Sebastian, saint John the Baptist, saint Mary

Gentile e Giovanni Bellini, Saint Mark preaching in Alexandria

Michele da Verona, Crucifixion

Arrigo Cipriani - Gentile e Giovanni Bellini, Saint Mark preaching in Alexandria

Orhan Pamuk - Gentile e Giovanni Bellini, Saint Mark preaching in Alexandria

I said from close up… but not TOO close!

Who does this beret belong to?

Tintoretto, Discovery of the body of saint Mark

Tintoretto, Saint Helen, saint Barbara, saint Andrew, saint Macarius, another saint and a worshipper adore the cross

Veronese, Supper in the house of Simon

Veronese, Saint Anthony the abbot with saint Cornelius and saint Cyprian

Jacopo Bassano, Saint Roch visits the plague-stricken

Veronese, Baptism and temptations of Christ

Veronese, Last Supper

Tiziano, Penitent saint Jerome

Tim Parks - Veronese, Baptism and temptations of Christ

Tim Parks - Veronese, Last Supper

In the show

The centre of attention

Cesare da Sesto, Madonna and Child (Madonna of the tree)

Gaudenzio Ferrari, Birth of the Virgin

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi and Marco d’Oggiono, Adoration of the magi, Baptism of christ

Bernardino Luini, Vulcan’s forge

Bernardo Zenale, Madonna and Child, saint James, saint Philip and the family of Antonio Busti

Vincenzo Foppa, Martyrdom of saint Sebastian

Bramante, Man with a mace

Bramante, Man with a two-handed sword

Bergognone, Adoration of the shepherds

Bergognone, Madonna and Child, saint Catherine of Siena and a carthusian monk

Bergognone, Madonna and sleeping Child (Madonna of the veil)

Vincenzo Foppa, Presentation of Jesus in the temple

Donato de' Bardi, Saint John the Baptist

Bonifacio Bembo, Saint Julian; Saint James the Greater

Gregorio Zavattari (attributed), Assumption of the Virgin

Giovanni Martino Spanzotti, Saint Andrew; Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Sebastian

Bramante, Heraclitus and Democritus

Vincenzo Foppa, Madonna and Child with saint John the Baptist and saint John the Evangelist

Bernardino Luini, The scorn of Cam

Bernardino Luini, The body of saint Catherine borne by the angels

Bernardino Luini, Sevis comforted by Dryope and Tavaianus

Bernardino Luini, Putti harvesting grapes

Bernardino Luini, Nymphs bathing

Bernardino Luini, The hebrews' song of triumph

Gaudenzio Ferrari, Stories of saint Joachim and sainte Anne

Gaudenzio Ferrari, Adoration of the magi

Bernardino Luini, Madonna of the rose-bush

Seen, unseen

Two faces and a world

The tear

Pseudo Boccaccino, Dual potrait

Marco d'Oggiono, The three archangels (Gabriel, Michael and Raphael)

Gaudenzio Ferrari, Madonna and Child

Bramantino, Madonna and Child with two angels (“Soli Deo" Madonna)

Bramantino, Holy Family

Bernardo Zenale, Madonna and Child with two angels

Bernardo Zenale, Annunciation

Vincenzo Foppa, Polyptych of Santa Maria delle Grazie

Andrea Solario, Portrait of a young man

Boltraffio, Portrait of a young man

Boltraffio, Portrait of a young man

Maestro della Pala Sforzesca, Sforza Altarpiece

Fernando Yañez o Fernando Llanos, Madonna and Child with a lamb

Andrea Solario, Madonna and Child (Madonna of the carnations)

Francesco Napoletano, Madonna and Child

Maestro della Pala Sforzesca, Saint John the evangelist

Up and down

Family portrait

Chava Koster - Zenale, Annunciation

Bernardino Lanino, Saint Francis of Assisi

Bernardino Luini, Stories from the lives of saint Joachim, saint Anne and the Virgin

Girolamo Giovenone, Madonna and Child with saint Joseph, Saint James, Sainte Martha and a donor

Giampietrino, Penitent Saint Mary Magdalen

Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Self-portrait as abbot of the Accademia della Val di Blenio

In the utmost secrecy

Palma il Vecchio, Adoration of the Magi in the presence of saint Helen

Callisto Piazza, Madonna and child with saint John the Baptist and saint Jerome

Romanino, Presentation of Jesus in the temple

Canova, Napoleon as Mars the peacemaker

Paris Bordon, Baptism of Christ

Lotto, Pietà

Cariani, Resurrection of christ, saint Jerome, saint John the Baptist and the donors Ottaviano and Domitilla Vimercati at prayer

Cariani, Saint Gotthard altarpiece

Moroni, Assumption of the Virgin

Savoldo, Pesaro Altarpiece

Moretto, Madonna in glory with the Christ child, saint Jerome, saint Francis and saint Anthony the abbot

Too naked!

I can’t get through the door

Bramantino, Crucifixion

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Madonna and Child with saint John the Evangelist and saint Michael

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Portrait of maresciallo Lucio Foppa.

Vincenzo Campi, The kitchen

Vincenzo Campi, Saint Francis with the stigmata

Antonio Campi, Madonna and Child with saint Joseph, saint Catherine and saint Agnes

Camillo Boccaccino, Madonna and Child in glory with saint Bartholomew, saint John the Baptist, saint Albert and saint Jerome

Giulio Campi, Madonna and Child with saint Catherine of Alexandria, saint Francis and Pietro Martire Stampa

Giulio Campi, The Nativity with saint Matthias, saint Francis, the Blessed Alberto da Bergamo and a donor

Vincenzo Campi, Poultry sellers

Camillo Boccaccino, Venus and Cupid

Simone Peterzano, Venus and Cupid with two satyrs in a landscape

Lisa Hilton - Vincenzo Campi, The kitchen

Lisa Hilton - Simone Peterzano, Venus and Cupid with two satyrs in a landscape

Like Sherlock Holmes

Silence please!

Conservation close up - Giovanni Antonio Sogliani

The Restoration workshop

Giovan Battista Moroni, Madonna and Child, Saints and donor

Moretto, Madonna and Child with an Angel

Paris Bordon, Holy Family with St. Ambrose and a donor

Palma il Vecchio, Saint Roch; Saint Helen and Saint Constantine; Saint Sebastian

Paris Bordon, The Lovers

Conservation close up - Sogliani, St. Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Pittore veneto, Portrait of a young man

Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of a gentleman

Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of Febo da Brescia

Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of Laura da Pola

Callisto Piazza, Portrait of the condottiere Ludovico Vistarini

Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-Portrait

Palma il Giovane, Portrait of Father Giuliano Cirno

Tintoretto, Portrait of a young man

Giovan Battista Moroni, Portrait of Antonio Navagero

Giovan Battista Moroni, Portrait of a young man

Tiziano Vecellio, Portrait of Count Antonio di Porcia e Brugnera

Il Moro, Portrait of a man

A perfect couple

Geminiano Benzoni, saint Paul

Giovan Francesco Maineri, Head of St. John the Baptist

Francesco Zaganelli, Christ Carrying the Cross

Cosmè Tura, Christ Crucified

Niccolò Pisano, Madonna and Child

Boccaccio Boccaccino, Madonna with Child

Filippo Mazzola, Portrait of a Man

Lorenzo Costa, Adoration of the Magi

Castles in the air

Niccolò Pisano, Madonna and Child with Saints

Francesco Francia, The Annunciation

Ludovico Mazzolino, The Raising of Lazarus

Ercole de Roberti, Portuense Altarpiece

Lorenzo Leombruno, Allegory of Fortune

Correggio, Nativity

Correggio, Adoration of the Magi

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Portrait of a Friar

Michelangelo Anselmi, St. Jerome and St. Catherine of Alexandria

Dosso Dossi, St. Sebastian

L’Ortolano, The Crucifixion

Garofalo, Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Dosso Dossi, St. George

Dosso Dossi, St. John the Baptist

Ingrid Rowland - Ercole de Roberti, Portuense Altarpiece

Ingrid Rowland - Girolamo Mazzolino Bedoli, Portrait of a Friar

Ingrid Rowland - Dosso Dossi, Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

Tongs and nails

From the front, from the side

Bartolomeo di Tommaso, Madonna of the Sun

Gentile da Fabriano, Valle Romita Polyptych

Carlo Crivelli, Coronation of the Virgin and The Dead Christ

Carlo Crivelli, Crucifixion

Carlo Crivelli, Madonna of the Candle

Carlo Crivelli, San Domenico Triptych

L’Alunno, Cagli Polyptych

Giovanni Angelo da Antonio, Gualdo Tadino Polyptych

Ingrid Rowland - Carlo Crivelli, Coronation of the Virgin

Lisa Hilton - Carlo Crivelli, Madonna of the Candle

Ingrid Rowland - Carlo Crivelli, San Domenico Triptych

Barefoot

Clashing compositions

Pablo Picasso, Bull's head

Georges Braque, Le guéridon vert devant la fenêtre

Maurice Estève, Intérieur à la baie

Serge Poliakoff, Composition

Afro Basaldella, Silver dollar club

Piero della Francesca, Sacred Conversation

Raffaello, Marriage of the Virgin

Donato Bramante, Christ tied to the column

Ogawa Yoko - Piero della Francesca, Montefeltro Altarpiece

Lisa Hilton - Bramante, Christ tied to the column

Four steps (and more)

Girolamo Genga, Dispute over the Immaculate Conception

Federico Barocci, Martyrdom of St. Vitalis

F. Salviati e G. Porta, Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Bronzino, Portrait of A. Doria as Neptune

Perin del Vaga, The Crossing of the Red Sea

Pellegrino Tibaldi, Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

Lisa Hilton - Bronzino, Portrait of A. Doria as Neptune

With many figures

Ludovico Carracci, St. Anthony the Abbot Preaching

Annibale Carracci, Christ and the Samaritan Woman

Ludovico Carracci, Christ and the Canaanite Woman

Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus

Guercino, Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael

Ludovico Carracci,Adoration of the Magi

Guido Reni, Paul Rebukes the Repentant Peter

Lisa Hilton - Caravaggio,Supper at Emmaus

Tiziano Scarpa - Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus

Joy Kogawa - Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus

Invisible lines

Chava Koster - Guercino, Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael

Salvator Rosa, The Madonna del suffragio

Mattia Preti, St. Peter pays tribute money

Antiveduto Grammatica, St. Cecilia

Mattia Preti, A Mother Entrusting Her Sons to Christ

Jusepe de Ribera, Christ Mocked

Battistello Caracciolo, The Samaritan at the well

Orazio Gentileschi, The Martyrs Cecilia, Valerian and Tiburtius

“Greetings, king of the Jews!”

Sarah Dunant - Orazio Gentileschi, The Martyrs Cecilia, Valerian and Tiburtius

Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

Cerano, Madonna of the Rosary

Giulio Cesare Procaccini, St. Jerome

Giulio Cesare Procaccini, St. Cecilia

Cerano, Procaccini, Morazzone, St. Rufina and St. Secunda

Giulio Cesare Procaccini, St. Charles in Glory

Francesco Cairo, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

Daniele Crespi, The Last Supper

Tanzio da Varallo, The Martyrdom of Franciscan Friars

Morazzone, Madonna of the Rosary

Francesco Cairo, St. Catherine of Siena

Untitled

Luca Giordano, The Holy Family

Bernardo Strozzi, The Young St. John the Baptist

Bernardo Cavallino, The Slaughter of the Innocents

Gioacchino Assereto, The Presentation in the Temple

Bernardo Cavallino, The Virgin Immaculate

Pieter Paul Rubens, The Last Supper

Antoon van Dyck, Portrait of a Lady

Antoon van Dyck, Madonna and Child

Jacob Jordaens, The Sacrifice of Isaac

Joachim von Sandrart, The good Samaritan

Pietro da Cortona, Madonna and Child with Saints

Beware the dog

Annibale Carracci, Self-portrait with other figures

Tanzio da Varallo, Portrait of a Lady

Tanzio da Varallo, Portrait of a Gentleman

Luca Giordano, Self-portrait

Bernardo Strozzi, Portrait of a Knight of Malta

Portrait of Luigi Scaramuccia

Daniele Crespi, Portrait of a sculptor

Simon Vouet, Portrait of a Young Lady

“We painters speak with our hands”

Time to get dressed

Johannes Fyt, Still-life with a cat

Evaristo Baschenis, Kitchen still-life

Evaristo Baschenis, Still-life with musical instruments

Candido Vitali, Game with a live Pigeon

Pierre Subleyras, Christ Crucified with st. Eusebius, st. Philip Neri and st. Mary Magdalen

Giandomenico Tiepolo, St. Faustinus and st. Jovita appear in defence of brescia under attack from Niccolò

Carlo Innocenzo Carloni, The triumph of faith

Francesco Solimena, St. Willibald seeks pope Gregory III’s blessing before going to evangelise the saxons

Nicola Malinconico, Joshua causes the sun to stand still

Luca Giordano, Ecce homo

Francesco Solimena, The meeting between king Ratchis of the longobards and pope Zacharias during the siege of Perugia

Nicola Malinconico, The transport of the ark of the covenant

Pompeo Batoni, Madonna and Child with st. Joseph, st. Zachary, st. Elisabeth and the young st. John the Baptist

Manifattura di Volterra, Vase with a classical scene

Manifattura di Volterra, Vase with a classical scene

Giuseppe Bottani, St. Paula of Rome departs for the holy land

Giambattista Tiepolo, Our Lady of mount Carmel with st. Simon Stock, st. Theresa of Avila, st. Albert of Vercelli, the prophet Elijah and the souls In Purgatory

Pierre Subleyras, Visione di san Girolamo

Among the very first!

A missing page

Domenico Aspari, Self-portrait

Giambattista Pittoni, Hannibal swears an oath of hatred against Rome

Martin Knoller, Self-portrait

Like a photo

Feather, tassels and puffed sleeves

The first to laugh

Andrea Appiani, The Olympus (Jupiter, crowned with myrtle by the hours, proffers a goblet to Ganymede to be served nectar)

Abbondio Sangiorgio, Bust of Vincenzo Monti

Doge Francesco Francesco Hayez, Foscari's removal (the two Foscari)

Francesco Hayez, The odalisque

Giuseppe Molteni, Mother mourning (the death of her child)

Francesco Hayez, Melancholy

Francesco Hayez, Bathsheba at her bath

Francesco Hayez, Portrait of the Borri Stampa Family

Pelagio Palagi, Christopher Columbus prepares to set sail for the Americas

Francesco Hayez, Pietro Rossi

Giuseppe Molteni, Portrait of the singer Giuditta Pasta in the stage costume of "Nina or the girl driven mad by love"

Pierre Paul Proud'hon, Portrait of Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Giuseppe Bossi, Self-portrait with Felice Bellotti, Gaetano Cattaneo and Carlo Porta

The visible soul

Don’t move!

Gerolamo Induno, Doleful premonition

Francesco Hayez, The kiss

Francesco Hayez, The final moments of doge Marin Faliero on the "del piombo" staircase

Giovanni Fattori, The rest (The red cart)

Giovanni Fattori, Episode from the battle of Custoza. The wounded prince Amedeo is escorted to an ambulance

Silvestro Lega, After lunch (The trellis)

Francesco Hayez, Portrait of Massimo D'azeglio

Francesco Hayez, Self-portrait at the age of fifty-seven

Francesco Hayez, Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni

Francesco Hayez, Portrait of Teresa Manzoni Stampa Borri

Objects tell a story

Summer haze