In the rooms of the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana are kept works ranging from the Federiciana collection to the early twentieth century, there are about 1,500 works on canvas, canvas, and copper. Plus about 248 drawings by masters of the calibre of Raphael and Leonardo.
Address: Piazza Pio XI, 2, 20123 Milano
Opening Times and tickets
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm. Closed Mondays, 25 December, 1 January and Easter.
Admission 15 euro, reduced ticket 10 euro for under18 and over65. It is included in the Abbonamento Musei Lombardia. Reserve your ticket online.
Admission is free for children under 14 accompanied by a paying adult, licensed guides with a card, teachers accompanying school groups (one free ticket for every 10 students), accredited journalists and holders of the Lombardy Museums Subscription. The admission ticket also includes the exhibition of Leonardo’s Codex Atlanticus.
Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm. Closed on Mondays, 25 December, 1 January and Easter.
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In 1607 Cardinal Federico Borromeo founded the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, a few years later, on 29 April 1618 he donated his personal collection of paintings, statues, prints, drawings and engravings and established the Ambrosiana Art Gallery which was to be a basis for a future Academy of Fine Arts and support the Library.
The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana is developed on 24 rooms in which works of the Renaissance are kept, masterpieces such as Leonardo’s Musico, Caravaggio’s Canestra di Frutta, the Preparatory Carton for the School of Athens by Raphael, the Adoration of the Magi by Titian, the Madonna of Botticelli Pavilion and Jan Brueghel’s Flower Vases.
It is also possible to get an idea of 17th and 18th century local artists such as Daniele Crespi, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, Giadomenico Tiepolo, and the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as Andrea Appiani, Francesco Hayez, Mosè Bianchi and Emilio Longoni.
There are also works of historical and cultural value. For example, the gloves that Napoleon wore in Waterloo and a case containing a lock of hair by Lucrezia Borgia, a source of inspiration for great poets like Gabriele D’Annunzio and Lord Byron.