Pinacoteca Ambrosiana

The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana was founded in April 1618 thanks to the extraordinary donation from the Cardinal Federico Borromeo, who wished to bequeath his collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, which he had founded in 1607.

Along an exhibition route stretching 24 rooms, the art gallery houses timeless masterpieces from the history of art: from the Portrait of a musician by Leonardo at Fruit soup by Caravaggio, right up to the majestic A cartoon for the School of Athens by Raffaello, l'Adoration of the Magi by Titian, the Our Lady of the Pavilion by Botticelli and the refined Flower pots by Jan Brueghel.

As well as its renowned Renaissance masterpieces, the museum houses valuable collections of 17th-century Lombard (featuring works by Morazzone, Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Daniele Crespi and Carlo Francesco Nuvolone) and the Eighteenth century (Giandomenico Tiepolo, Fra Galgario, Francesco Londonio), right through to a wide selection of the’The 19th century and the early 20th century alongside masters of the calibre of Francis Hayez, Andrea Appiani, Mosè Bianchi and Emilio Longoni.