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In 1947 the Municipality of Milan, pressed by the need to find a new exhibition space for contemporary art, focused its attention on the site of Villa Belgioiosa, destroyed by bombing in 1943. It was decided to use the Villa as a site for the Modern Art Gallery, and to build a brand new space exclusively devoted to contemporary art.
Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Gloria Angelica, Foppa Chapel, Church of San Marco, a typical example of art of the second half of the 16th century in Milan. The Milanese art scene of the second half of the 16th century must be analyzed by considering the particular position of the city: while for the Spanish Empire it represented a strategic military outpost, from the religious point of view it was ...
The role of the academy was immediately clear; Federico Borromeo wrote in its statute: ‘The present Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture was founded for no other reason than to help artists create works for divine worship better than those currently being made’: its objective was the creation of a school of sacred art, especially ...
Mar. 21—MILAN — Dedication of the new Indiana State Historical Marker commemorating the "Milan Miracle" is set for Saturday, March 26, across the street from the Milan 54 Hoosiers Museum in ...
Art: Museum of UNESCO World Heritage Site Leonardo's Last Supper, housed in the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Museo del Duomo di Milano: 1: Art: Museum of the Milan Duomo. Museo del Novecento: 1: Contemporary art: Displays works mostly of 20th century Italian Avant-garde. Museo Della Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio: 1 ...
The Pinacoteca di Brera ("Brera Art Gallery") is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy , which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera .
In the 2000s Milan still remains one of the country's most important cultural, media and economic centres; its prominence is extended worldwide, and it is recognised as an Alpha global city. The city additionally hosted the Expo 2015. Milan is traditionally referred to as the moral capital of Italy, especially due to the city's perceived work ...
The Museo d'Arte Antica ('Museum of Ancient Art') is an art museum in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It has a large collection of sculpture from late antiquity and the medieval and Renaissance periods.