Ambrosiana Pinacoteca in Milan

History of Ambrosiana Pinacoteca
The Ambrosiana Pinacoteca is in the building where it has center the famous Ambrosiana Library, It was founded by Federico Borromeo in 1621 to place it side by side to the existing Library, and initially it was born as an painting and sculpture academy.
In the 1796 during the French occupation it was partly bereaved and the best works were brought away and then partly you come back in the 1817.
The building, widened and turned into various epoches, it was destoyed by bombardments of the last world war and the suffered losses were serious. The jobs of restoration were developed with a lot of slowness and they finished in 1959 but the definitive arrangement of the architectural structures and the suit rearrangement of the new rooms was completed in 1966.
In the Pinacoteca we can see works coming from the collection of Federico Borromeo and from numerous following bequests as paintings of Leonardo, Botticelli, Bramantino, Bergognone, Bernardino Luini, Tiziano, Jacopo Bassano, Moretto, Savoldo, Giovan Paolo Lomazzo, Caravaggio, Jan Brueghel, Cerano, Morazzone, Daniele Crespi, Anton Raphael Mengs, Andrea Appiani.
Interesting from the historical point of view, it’s the production of copies from famous paintings, promoted by Federico Borromeo for didactic purposes and documentatives as the replica of the last Supper of Leonardo, that already in the XVII century was in precarious conditions.
Today The Ambrosiana Pinacoteca is one of the galleries more visited in Milan.