The Brera Gallery: The Official Guide

by Arrigoni, Luisa; Daffra, Emanuela; Marani, Pietro C.; Rrigoni, Luisa; Marani, C.

• ISBN13: 9788836514069
• ISBN10: 8836514065
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

This is the first official guide to Italy's first public museum, the Milan home of famous paintings by Bellini, Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Tintoretto, and Veronese. Room by room, wall by wall, this guide gives detailed information about this magnificent permanent collection spanning the 13th to 20th centuries. The introduction by the Museum Director, Luisa Arrigoni, gives the history of Pinacoteca di Brera.

Table of Contents

Preface	8	(16)
Luisa Arrigoni
The Jesi Gift: 20th-century paintings and sculptures	16	(32)
The Chapel of Mocchirolo	48	(4)
Italian paintings from the 13th to the 15th centuries	52	(18)
Venetian paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries	70	(8)
Venetian paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries	78	(12)
Venetian portraits of the 16th century	90	(10)
Venetian paintings of the 15th century	100	(12)
Venetian paintings of the 16th century	112	(10)
Venetian paintings of the 16th century	122	(16)
Lombard paintings and frescoes of the 15th and 16th centuries	138	(12)
Lombard paintings of the 16th century	150	(14)
Lombard religious paintings and portraits of the 15th and 16th centuries	164	(12)
15th-century paintings from Ferrara and Emilia-Romagna	176	(10)
15th-century polyptychs from the Marches	186	(12)
15th-and 16th-cent. paintings from Ferrara and Emilia-Romagna	198	(12)
16th-century paintings from Emilia-Romagna	210	(6)
Piero della Francesca, Signorelli, Bramante and Raphael	216	(6)
The painting of Central Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries	222	(8)
The painting of Central Italy in the 17th century	230	(8)
Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti	238	(8)
Lombard painting in the 17th century	246	(8)
Flemish and Italian Paintings of the 17th century	254	(12)
Flemish and Dutch paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries	266	(12)
Religious painting of the 18th century	278	(12)
Venetian paintings, Italian genre paintings and portraits of the 18th century	290	(20)
Italian paintings of the 19th century	310	(22)
Index of artists	332	(4)
Glossary and Select Bibliography	336