Pinacoteca Ambrosiana

Milan, Italy · 15 works · 13 painters

The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana is a museum in Milan, Italy, closely tied to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana beside it. Cardinal Federico Borromeo founded it in 1618 around his own collection of roughly 250 works, intended to give free cultural training to talented people. An academy of painting and sculpture was soon attached to it, and Giovanni Battista Crespi became its first director. Among the highlights are Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of a Musician, Caravaggio's Basket of Fruit and Botticelli's Madonna of the Pavilion, while Bramantino, with three paintings, is the most represented artist online. Later bequests enlarged the holdings, and the gallery was renovated in several phases, most recently between 1990 and 1997.

Works

**Portrait of a Musician**Leonardo da Vinci1485

**Madonna del Padiglione**Sandro Botticelli1490

**Holy Family with Saints Anne and John the Baptist**Bernardino Luini1517

**Adoration of the Child**Bramantino1485

**Martyrdom of Saint Peter of Verona**Moretto da Brescia1530

**Portrait of Paolo Morigia**Fede Galizia1593

**Portrait of a Lady**Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis1490

**Daniel in the lions den**Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano1497

**Christ on the Way to Calvary**Giovanni Cariani1520

**The Annunciation**Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli1539

**Portrait of Carlo Borromeo**Giovanni Ambrogio Figino1587

Artists with work in this museum

Bramantino 3
Leonardo da Vinci 1
Sandro Botticelli 1
Caravaggio 1
Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano 1
Moretto da Brescia 1
Federico Barocci 1
Bernardino Luini 1
Giovanni Cariani 1
Fede Galizia 1
Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis 1
Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli 1
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino 1