Gallerie d'Italia – Milano
Canova's bas-reliefs in room one, Boccioni in the wing next door — two centuries of Lombard art under one Milanese roof.
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The Fondazione Cariplo's 195-piece collection spans the full arc of 19th-century Lombard painting: Risorgimento battle scenes by Gerolamo Induno, Romantic canvases by Francesco Hayez, and street-level views of Milan's Navigli canals. A separate 20th-century wing, opened in 2012 inside the Palazzo della Banca Commerciale Italiana, adds another 189 works including Boccioni.
What to look for
- Antonio Canova's Rezzonico bas-reliefs across Rooms 1–4, where Homeric epic meets Enlightenment virtue in marble
- Room 14's Navigli vedute — painters recording Milan's canal life at street level
- The 2012 20th-century wing in the Palazzo della Banca Commerciale Italiana, where Umberto Boccioni appears
The museum sits on Piazza della Scala in the Palazzo Brentani and Palazzo Anguissola Antona Traversi, directly beside La Scala opera house.
Gallerie d'Italia – Milano is one of 35 sights worth the detour in Milan, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Milan pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Milan
- San Siro — Giuseppe Meazza StadiumTwo rival clubs, one ground: the 75,817-seat arena where Milan's football fault line runs.
- Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano)Construction started in 1386 and the final details were finished in 1965 — the city couldn't stop adding to it.
- La ScalaThe gallery gods who booed tenor Roberto Alagna off stage mid-Aida in 2006 still haunt the loggione — the cheapest seats in opera's most feared house.
- Santa Maria delle GrazieThe wall Leonardo painted on was sand-bagged against Allied bombs in 1943 — and held.
- Sforza CastleLeonardo da Vinci painted the ceiling here. Bramante did the walls down the hall.
- Galleria Vittorio Emanuele IIThe direct ancestor of every enclosed shopping mall on earth — and there is still a worn hole in the floor where Milanese spin a heel for luck.