brera picture gallery (pinacoteca di brera)

karolinaw459

Great gallery with an amazing work of arts! Every art lover should go there! For art history students the entrance is free, so when I was living in Milano, I've been there many times. It's not to crowded so you can experience the atmosphere there and it's easier to take a look on your favourite pictures.

lesleys557

Great gallery, not too crowded so that you could see all the works easily. Has works by Bellini, Mantegna and Raphael. Good bookshop also.

503ritad

The fee is fair. $10 euro, plus 5 dollars for headset if u need. The arts are amazing. There's no question for that. But for English users, the explanation only have 51 pieces of arts. I just wish I can understand Italian so that I can hear all tho. The most interesting thing for me is they have a glass room that people work inside to maintain or fix theses art pieces. The way they hang the art piece while maintaining. Let me see the back of art piece as well. Then I understand how theses old arts built the frames, too. I think that is quiet interesting as I never see that before.

andreaj116

Not to be missed. You will find a collection of masterpieces ranging from the Renaissance to the modern art. Botticelli, Caravaggio, Bramante, are on display in this unique building located in the best area of Milan.

246owenb

Great collection over 38 rooms. A bit overwhelming so take your time, and take rests on seats around gallery. Good shop, pity there's no cafe.

MacDaddyinSing

A long walk through renaissance religious art and with a few exceptions probably not names most of us recognise. Of course compared to the art of today, the technical skill and detail is amazing, but after x number of crucifixions and martyrdoms of St Sebastian one starts longing for a bit more variety and/or a coffee: there's just intimidatingly too many of them for a non-expert to take in.Apologies for being a Philistine!

T5985UUrebeccas

Pinacoteca di Brera's collection is around 90% straightforward religious imagery, 5% weird subjects like decapitated heads and dead animals, and 5% scenic and otherwise non-religious. The first two categories do not often fascinate me, so I did not find a wide variety of paintings to interest me here. I did feel unusually attracted to a particular painting of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. However, I doubt I'd go back here on a second visit to Milan.

layann2015

It is a very beautiful beautiful building that is filled with impressive artwork. It is not a giant building but need over than a couple of hours to get through. So much to see!

jorg1bri

We bought tickets for the brera gallery in conjunction with the veiwing of the Last Supper. It was definitely something we will remember and very glad we had the time to fit it in. The experience took a downward spiral when we entered to collect our pre paid tickets. The lady on the counter was incredibly rude. After she gave us our tickets we waited in an awkward silence not sure where to go next due to lack of signs. We asked her which way it was to the gallery and she gave us a flick of the hand and a ticking noise with her mouth. Made us feel like a barn animal that she was shooing out of the way. We wandered around the corner and soon found the start of the gallery. We encountered this type of behavior a lot during our stay. We understand it can be frustrating with the language barrier and would like to speak better Italian but you still shouldnt put a damper on someones holiday becasue you cant be bothered. Customer service is something that is never forgotten but is so easy to do right. If your in the tourism business leave your bad attitude at home.

fayV804

This school is stunning. Steeped in history and yet still very much alive with students, professors, classrooms, and galleries. So much to do and see and step out of the fray and into the art.

Y1479KSmarkc

We loved this museum, and went there thinking we would spend only a couple of hours but stayed for the entire afternoon until it closed. Of the three museums we visited in Milan, this one, the Ambrosiana and the Civic Gallery of Modern Art, the Brera is head and shoulders above the others. Ambrosiana touts the fact it has Titian, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and Caravaggio, but then so do ALOT of museums across Europe...these artists ALL cranked out a lot of art and frankly, some of it was pretty mediocre. Ambrosiana certainly doesn't have the great ones (although the building itself was beautiful). Brera, on the other hand, has some pieces by Reubens, Bellini, Mategna, Veronese and others that you can sit in front of for hours. If you have time for only one museum in Milan, hands down this is the one to visit. I'd put it among the top 15 of the 100+ art museums we've been in in Europe.

youcancallmesarah

We went during renovations but it still was a lovely visit. You can smoke in the courtyard, along with the many students, where a nude Napoleon stands proud.

pkt2015

What can you say Fantastic, make sure you take plenty of time to see everything, the surrounding area is great to explore.

Snowbunny91

Lovely gallery. Wonderful area to walk around before or after your visit to museum. Many 15th-18th paintings. Interesting.

mimig560

The pinocoteca is large. It would require more than 2 hours to see all the paintings. We only stopped at the important pieces, such as the Breugals, the Mantagna, and the Pietro Della Francesca, Botticelli, Raphael,etc. Room XXI is not to be missed, I was there for more than 15 minutes, as there were several large triptych, lovely indeed. The building itself was beautiful, the tour was one way, so that one gets to cross carved staircases, one of which had mosaics , one can go up to see the tesserae mounted in the directions of the figures. That was a treat.