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Brera 

(Pinacoteca Brera), in Milan, one of the largest picture galleries in Italy. Founded in 1809, it includes an extensive collection of 14th- through 19th-century Italian paintings by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Francesco del Cossa, Raphael, Veronese, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, G. B. Tiepolo, and masters of the school of Leonardo da Vinci, as well as a gallery of Lombard frescoes of the 15th—16th centuries. The Brera also has a collection of 15th- to 17th-century European paintings.

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Catalogue de la Pinacothèque de Brera à Milan. Milan, n. d. (In Italian, English, German, and French.)
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The Pinacoteca di Brera, in the heart of the arty Brera district, is reckoned to be one of the most important in the world.
City of Milanaires by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Two to watch out for are the Pinacoteca di Brera, reckoned to have the most famous collection of paintings in the world, and the Castello Sforzesco, where the Musei del Castello houses the Pieta Roundanini, Michelangelo's last sculpture before his death in 1564.
World capital of cool by Murray, Neil / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Veronese is at his best when at his sketchiest, as he is here and in his small Agony in the Garden in the Pinacoteca di Brera and his Resurrection in the Dresden Gemaldegalerie; bare of late-Venetian gaudiness.
Picture galleries outside London: The Christ Church Gallery, Oxford by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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