Portrait Of A Musician
Leonardo da Vinci
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Milan
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana holds 2 Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces in the Paintale collection, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli. Each painting page unpacks the symbolism, technique, and provenance of the work — turning a gallery visit, or a search for a single canvas, into a deeper encounter with the period.
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Famous paintings at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
About the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana’s Renaissance and Baroque collection
The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana’s holdings of Renaissance and Baroque painting in Milan sit among the most significant surviving collections of pre-modern European art. The works in this group — 2 paintings — span the themes of portrait, religion & mythology and the hands of artists from Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli.
If you’re planning a visit, use this page as a starting list of the must-see paintings. If you’re researching from a desk, each painting page goes deeper than a museum label: the patron, the symbolism a 17th-century viewer would have recognised, the technique under the surface, and where the painting fits in Pinacoteca Ambrosiana’s longer history.