Editing Milan (section)

=== Museums and art galleries ===
{{Main|List of museums in Milan}}
[[File:Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - The Last Supper (1495-1498).jpg|thumb|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s ''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)|The Last Supper]]'', together with the church of [[Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan)|Santa Maria delle Grazie]], is a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]].]]
[[File:Milan - Pinacothèque de Brera - Cour intérieure.jpg|thumb|The [[Pinacoteca di Brera]]]]
[[File:Parco Sempione (Milan), Wikimania 2016, MP 003.jpg|thumb|The [[Triennale]] design and art museum]]
[[File:San Carlo al Corso (Milano) 2022.jpg|thumb|The [[San Carlo al Corso (Milan)|San Carlo al Corso]]]]

Milan is home to many cultural institutions, museums and art galleries, that account for about a tenth of the national total of visitors and receipts.<ref>{{cite web|title=STATE MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES. NUMBER OF VISITORS AND RECEIPTS BY TYPE OF ADMISSION AND TYPE OF INSTITUTE, 2011|url=http://www.asr-lombardia.it/PSY-Milano/cultural-activities/culture/lombardia-and-provinces/tables/12915/|publisher=Province of Milan|access-date=14 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508061231/http://www.asr-lombardia.it/PSY-Milano/cultural-activities/culture/lombardia-and-provinces/tables/12915/|archive-date=8 May 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Pinacoteca di Brera is one of Milan's most important art galleries. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian painting, including masterpieces such as the ''[[Brera Madonna]]'' by [[Piero della Francesca]]. The Castello Sforzesco hosts numerous art collections and exhibitions, especially statues, ancient arms and furnitures, as well as the [[Sforza Castle Pinacoteca|Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco]], with an art collection including [[Michelangelo]]'s last sculpture, the ''[[Rondanini Pietà]]'', [[Andrea Mantegna]]'s ''[[Trivulzio Madonna]]'' and Leonardo da Vinci's ''[[Codex Trivulzianus]]'' manuscript. The Castello complex also includes [[Museo d'Arte Antica|The Museum of Ancient Art]], The Furniture Museum, The [[Museum of Musical Instruments (Milan)|Museum of Musical Instruments]] and the [[Applied Arts Collection (Milan)|Applied Arts Collection]], [[Egyptian Museum (Milan)|The Egyptian and Prehistoric sections]] of the [[Archaeological Museum (Milan)|Archaeological Museum]] and the Achille Bertarelli Print Collection (Civica Raccolta delle Stampe Bertarelli).

Milan's figurative art flourished in the [[Middle Ages]], and with the Visconti family being major patrons of the arts, the city became an important centre of [[Gothic art]] and architecture (Milan Cathedral being the city's most formidable work of Gothic architecture). Leonardo worked in Milan from 1482 until 1499. He was commissioned to paint the ''[[Virgin of the Rocks]]'' for the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception and ''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo)|The Last Supper]]'' for the monastery of [[Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan)|Santa Maria delle Grazie]].<ref name=Kemp>{{Cite book|first=Martin|last=Kemp|title=Leonardo|year=2004}}</ref>

The city was [[Baroque in Milan|affected by the Baroque]] in the 17th and 18th centuries, and hosted numerous formidable artists, architects and painters of that period, such as [[Caravaggio]] and [[Francesco Hayez]], which several important works are hosted in Brera Academy. The [[Museum of the Risorgimento (Milan)|Museum of Risorgimento]] is specialised on the history of [[Italian unification]] Its collections include iconic paintings like [[Baldassare Verazzi]]'s ''Episode from the Five Days'' and Francesco Hayez's 1840 ''[[:File:Francesco Hayez 047.jpg|Portrait]] of Emperor [[Ferdinand I of Austria]]''. The [[Triennale]] is a design museum and events venue located in Palazzo dell'Arte, in [[Parco Sempione|Sempione Park]]. It hosts exhibitions and events highlighting contemporary Italian design, urban planning, architecture, music and media arts, emphasising the relationship between art and industry.

Milan in the 20th century was the epicentre of the [[Futurism|futurist]] artistic movement. [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti|Filippo Marinetti]], the founder of Italian Futurism wrote in his 1909 "''[[Manifesto of Futurism]]''" (in Italian, ''Manifesto Futuristico''), that Milan was "''grande...tradizionale e futurista''" ("''grand...traditional and futuristic''", in English). [[Umberto Boccioni]] was also an important Futurism artist who worked in the city. Today, Milan remains a major international hub of modern and contemporary art, with numerous modern art galleries. The [[Modern Art Gallery (Milan)|Modern Art Gallery]], situated in the Royal Villa, hosts collections of Italian and European painting from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gam-milano.com/ |title=Galleria d'Arte moderna di Milano |publisher=GAM Milano |access-date=29 September 2012 |archive-date=25 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121125153129/http://www.gam-milano.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>''Le città d'arte: Milano'', Guide brevi Skira, ed.2008, autori vari (Italian language).</ref><ref>''Milan'', Lonely Planet Encounter Guides, 1st Edition, January 2009 (English language).</ref> The [[The Museum of Twentieth Century (Museo del Novecento)|Museo del Novecento]], situated in the [[Palazzo dell'Arengario]], is one of the most important art galleries in Italy about 20th-century art; of particular relevance are the sections dedicated to Futurism, [[Spatialism]] and [[Arte povera]]. In the early 1990s architect [[David Chipperfield]] was invited to convert the premises of the former Ansaldo Factory into a Museum. Museo delle Culture (MUDEC) opened in April 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archdaily.com/617947/museum-of-cultures-completes-in-milan|title=Museum of Cultures Completes in Milan|date=10 April 2015|work=archdaily.com|access-date=13 September 2016|archive-date=19 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919112127/http://www.archdaily.com/617947/museum-of-cultures-completes-in-milan|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Gallerie di Piazza Scala]], a modern and contemporary museum located in Piazza della Scala in the Palazzo Brentani and the Palazzo Anguissola, hosts 195 artworks from the collections of [[Fondazione Cariplo]] with a strong representation of nineteenth-century Lombard painters and sculptors, including [[Antonio Canova]] and Umberto Boccioni. A new section was opened in the Palazzo della Banca Commerciale Italiana in 2012. Other private ventures dedicated to contemporary art include the exhibiting spaces of the [[Prada Foundation]] and [[HangarBicocca]]. The [[Nicola Trussardi Foundation]] is renewed for organising temporary exhibition in venues around the city. Milan is also home to many public art projects, with a variety of works that range from sculptures to murals to pieces by internationally renowned artists, including [[Arman]], [[Kengiro Azuma]], [[Francesco Barzaghi]], [[Alberto Burri]], [[Pietro Cascella]], [[Maurizio Cattelan]], Leonardo da Vinci, [[Giorgio de Chirico]], [[Kris Ruhs]], [[Emilio Isgrò]], [[Fausto Melotti]], [[Joan Miró]], Carlo Mo, [[Claes Oldenburg]], [[Igor Mitoraj]], Gianfranco Pardi, [[Michelangelo Pistoletto]], [[Arnaldo Pomodoro]], Carlo Ramous, [[Aldo Rossi]], [[Aligi Sassu]], [[Giuseppe Spagnulo]] and [[Domenico Trentacoste]].