Pinacoteca di Brera

Plan to spend a few hours at the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan’s most important museum. Masterworks include Raffaello’s Wedding of the Virgin, Piero della Francesca’s Virgin and Child with Saints, and Andrea Mantegna’s Dead Christ. The collections here have a rather illicit provenance: Napoléon ordered many of the best paintings to be seized from churches and private collections throughout northern Italy.