Founded in 1607 by the Archibishop Federico Borromeo, the Ambrosiana Art Gallery was a museum but also a support for the training of the students of the Academy of Drawing.
Contains an immense collection of paintings and manuscripts. First of all the 1119 sheets and 1790 drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codice Atlantico.
In the Art Gallery there are a lot of masterpieces : Leonardo Da Vinci’s Portrait of musician , Raphael’s gigantic cartooon (24 square metres) of the School of Athens, Caravaggio’s Basket of Fruit, Titian’s Adoration og Magi and Botticelli’s Madonna of the Canopy.
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