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Art Museum Attractions In Milan

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Milan is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,372,075 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,242,420. Its continuously built-up urban area has a population estimated to be about 5,270,000 over 1,891 square kilometres . The wider Milan metropolitan area, known as Greater Milan, is a polycentric metropolitan region that extends over central Lombardy and eastern Piedmont and which counts an estimated total population of 7.5 million, making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and the 54th largest in the world. Mil...
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  • 1. Pinacoteca di Brera Milan
    The Pinacoteca di Brera is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.
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  • 2. Museo Poldi Pezzoli Milan
    The Museo Poldi Pezzoli is an art museum in Milan, Italy. It is located near the Teatro alla Scala, on Via Manzoni 12. The museum was originated in the 19th century as a private collection of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli and his mother, Rosa Trivulzio, of the family of the condottiero Gian Giacomo Trivulzio. Many of the rooms in the palace were redecorated starting in 1846, a commissions entrusted to Luigi Scrosati and Giuseppe Bertini. Individual rooms were often decorated and furnished to match the paintings hung on the walls. The architect Simone Cantoni rebuilt the palace in its present Neoclassical style with an English-style interior garden. In 1850–1853, Poldi Pezzoli commissioned the architect Giuseppe Balzaretto to refurbish his apartment.Pezzoli in his testament left the house an...
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  • 3. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana Milan
    The Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, also housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery. Named after Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, it was founded in 1609 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, whose agents scoured Western Europe and even Greece and Syria for books and manuscripts. Some major acquisitions of complete libraries were the manuscripts of the Benedictine monastery of Bobbio and the library of the Paduan Vincenzo Pinelli, whose more than 800 manuscripts filled 70 cases when they were sent to Milan and included the famous Iliad, the Ilia Picta.
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  • 4. Duomo Museum Milan
    Piazza del Duomo is the main piazza of Milan, Italy. It is named after, and dominated by, the Milan Cathedral . The piazza marks the center of the city, both in a geographic sense and because of its importance from an artistic, cultural, and social point of view. Rectangular in shape, with an overall area of 17,000 m2 , the piazza includes some of the most important buildings of Milan , as well some of the most prestigious commercial activities, and it is by far the foremost tourist attraction of the city. While the piazza was originally created in the 14th century and has been gradually developing ever since , its overall plan, in its current form, is largely due to architect Giuseppe Mengoni, and dates back to the second half of the 19th century. The monumental buildings that mark its si...
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  • 5. Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Milan
    The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is a historic house museum in the Montenapoleone district [1] of downtown Milan, northern Italy. The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum’s permanent collections principally contain Italian Renaissance decorative arts , some sculptures , and many paintings. European Renaissance weapons, armor, clocks and a few textiles and scientific and musical instruments complete the collection assembled by the Barons Bagatti Valsecchi, and displayed in their home, as per their wishes.
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  • 7. Sforzesco Castle Milan
    Sforza Castle is in Milan, northern Italy. It was built in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, on the remnants of a 14th-century fortification. Later renovated and enlarged, in the 16th and 17th centuries it was one of the largest citadels in Europe. Extensively rebuilt by Luca Beltrami in 1891–1905, it now houses several of the city's museums and art collections.
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  • 8. Museo Pieta Rondanini Milan
    The Museo d'Arte Antica is an art museum in the Castello Sforzesco of Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It has a large collection of sculpture from the late antiquity, Mediaeval and Renaissance periods. The various frescoed rooms of the museum house an armoury, a tapestry room, some funerary monuments, the Rondanini Pietà and two mediaeval portals. The Sala Verde displays 15th and 16th century sculptures, the collection of arms of Sforza Castle and the Portale del Banco Mediceo, a gate removed from Via Bossi. The collection of arms, in the second part of the room, displays sculptures, armour, swords and firearms in chronological sequence from the Middle Ages to the 18th century. The Sala dell'Asse, designed and frescoed by Leonardo da Vinci at the request of Lodovico il Moro, represen...
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  • 9. Palazzo della Ragione Milan
    The Palazzo della Ragione is a historic building of Milan, Italy, located in Piazza Mercanti, facing the Loggia degli Osii. It was built in the 13th century and originally served as a broletto as well as a judicial seat. As it was the second broletto to be built in Milan, it is also known as the Broletto Nuovo . The palace is decorated with a relief representing Oldrado da Tresseno , and the bas relief of the scrofa semilanuta , which has been object of much controversy among scholars of the foundation and origins of Milan.
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  • 10. Museum of Applied Arts of Castello Sforzesco Milan
    This is a list of museums in the Province of Milan, Lombardy Region, Italy.
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  • 12. Museum of Ancient Art Milan
    Below is a list of museums in Milan. The city of Milan is an important cultural, artistic, design and fashion center in the north of Italy and it has an excellent museum complex both civic and private.
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  • 13. Museo d'Arte e Scienza Milan
    The Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci is located in Vinci, Leonardo da Vinci's birthplace, in the province of Florence, Italy.
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  • 15. Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea Milan
    Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea is a contemporary art space in Milan, Italy. It is located in via Palestro, near Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli, next to the Modern Art Gallery .
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