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Peck
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Pellini
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Wait and See
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Pinacoteca di Brera
GALLERY
( 02 722 63 264;
www.brera.beniculturali.it
;
Via Brera 28; adult/reduced child €6/3; 8.30am-7.15pm Tue-Sun;
Lanza)
Located upstairs from the centuries-old Accademia di Belle Arti (still one of
Italy's most prestigious art schools), this gallery houses Milan's most impressive collec-
tion of old masters, much of the bounty 'lifted' from Venice by Napoleon. Rembrandt,
Goya and van Dyck all have a place in the collection, but you're here to see the Italians:
Titian, Tintoretto, glorious Veronese, groundbreaking Mantegna, the Bellini brothers and a
Caravaggio.
Museo Poldi Pezzoli
HOUSE MUSEUM
( 02 79 48 89;
www.museopoldipezzoli.it
; Via Alessandro Manzoni 12; adult/reduced €9/6; 10am-6pm Wed-
Mon; Montenapoleone)
Inheriting his vast fortune at the age of 24, Gian Giacomo Poldi
Pezzoli also inherited his mother's love of art and during extensive European travels he
was inspired by the 'house museum' that was later to become London's V&A. As his col-
lection grew, Pezzoli had the idea of transforming his apartments into a series of historic-
ally themed rooms based on the great art periods of the past (the Middle Ages, Early
Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo). Although crammed with a collection of big ticket art-
works, including Botticelli, Bellini and the beautiful
Portrait of a Woman
by Pollaiolo,
these
Sala d'Artista
are exquisite works of art in their own right.
Museo Bagatti Valsecchi
HOUSE MUSEUM
( 02 7600 6132;
www.museobagattivalsecchi.org
; Via Gesù 5; adult/reduced €8/4, Wed €4; 1-5.45pm Tue-Sun;
Montenapoleone)
Though born a few centuries too late, the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers,
Fausto and Giuseppe, were determined to be Renaissance men, and from 1878 to 1887
