The Ambrosian Art Gallery is considered the very first Milan museum, because it was founded at the beginning of the 17th century in a luxurious archbishop’s palace. In the ancient halls, canvases of such great meters as Raphael, Caravaggio, Titian, Leonardo da Vinci are kept. By the way, a separate exhibition is devoted to the latter, which includes canvases of the master himself and his followers, as well as originals of handwritten texts belonging to the pen of the great genius.
The inner courtyard of the museum is decorated with sculptures from various historical periods. Also here are Bonaparte’s gloves, which were on him when his fate was decided at Waterloo, and the jewelry of Lucrezia Borgia, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI.
Address: Piazza Pio XI, 2
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