What's important in the historic building on Via Brera, in Milan? Here is the list:
- The famous Picture Gallery, one of Italy's most prestigious public museums (the "Dead Christ" by Mantegna, "The Marriage of the Virgin" by Raphael, the "fourth state" of Pelizza by Volpedo)
- the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts ;
- the National Library Braidense;
- the Lombard Institute of Science and Letters;
- Astronomical Observatory;
- I'Istituto General and Applied Physics;
- the Botanical Gardens.
Well, all this good things will pay more in total degradation, as evidenced by this article of Corriere della Sera, which also explains how there is little illusion about the future:
'degradation is obvious - it allows the director of the Academy, prof. Ferdinand De Filippi - but we can not do anything. We are part of the Fine Arts of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry 's Univerity and research, while the Art Museum, the National Library Braidense are part of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Culture. We can only occupy the interior corridors, classrooms, and the palace, the courtyard, statues are part of the State Property Agency. " That situation, acknowledged by the director of the gallery, Luisa Arrigoni, "We are without a building owner." "There is no doubt that the plaster statues of the corridors of the Academy are dirty - says the director De Filippi - But we can not touch. The neoclassical building in Via Brera 28 is a unique case because it expresses a concept of interdisciplinary art. " If
blush was still in fashion, Italy should look like a huge lawn covered with poppies ...