How are you?
The
18th place I would like to introduce for this week is The
Pinacoteca di Brera.
The
Pinacoteca di Brera ("Brera Art Gallery") is the main public gallery
in Milan, Italy. Housing some of the most important collections of Italian
paintings from the 13th to the 20th centuries, it is an outgrowth of the
cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo
Brera.
The convent on the site passed to the Jesuits in 1572 and was then radically rebuilt by Francesco Maria Richini. When the Jesuits were disbanded in 1773, the palazzo remained the seat of the astronomical Observatory and the Braidense National Library, founded by the Jesuits. The buildings were extended to the design by Giuseppe Piermarini, who was appointed professor of the Academy when it was formally founded in 1776, with Giuseppe Parini as dean. Piermarini taught at the Academy for 20 years, and under Parini's successors, Carlo Bianconi and Giuseppe Bossi, the Academy acquired the first paintings of its Pinacoteca.
In 1882, the Paintings Gallery was separated from the Academy and Giuseppe Bertini was appointed as its first director. In 1903, the Pinacoteca opened 19 new rooms to display over a hundred newly acquired works, such as frescoes by Donato Bramante.
In
1939, during World War II, Pinacoteca's works were secured by Fernanda
Wittgens, while the building was severely damaged in the bombings in 1943. In
February 1946, The Pinacoteca began its slow resurrection from the ruins,
thanks to the funding from some historic Milanese families, including the
Bernocchi family, and to the work of Piero Portaluppi, Gualtiero Galmanini and
Fernanda Wittgens.
The
works of Modigliani currently in the possession of The Pinacoteca di Brera are
as follows.
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Happy New Year!!!
Thank you.
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