Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, inside the Palazzo dell’Ambrosiana, was founded in 1618 by Federico Borromeo. It grew out of the already-established Biblioteca Ambrosiana, created in 1609, with a clear cultural aim: to provide free learning to people with artistic or intellectual talent. From 1621, the pinacoteca was paired with an academy of painting and sculpture, supported by plaster casts of the *Laocoonte* and Michelangelo’s *Pietà*, brought through the collection of Leone Leoni. That educational model kept shifting. A “Seconda Accademia Ambrosiana” operated from 1668 until the end of the 1700s, shaped by Antonio Busca and the sculptor Dionigi Bussola, and it eventually closed when the Accademia di belle arti di Brera opened in 1776—funded with far more resources, including Maria Teresa d’Austria’s patronage. …
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