WELCOME BACK FALL APERITIVO!
When: Thursday October 31st, 2024 (6-8pm)
Where: Zest Group’s ‘The Hub’, Italy’s largest digital start-up accelerator at the Termini Station Penthouse. Entrance at Via Marsala 29h
What: WELCOME BACK Fall Aperitivo! ‘Al fresco’ weather permitting
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THE PAYPAL PORTAL ACCEPTS PAYMENT BY CREDIT CARD & PAYPAL ACCOUNT
100% of the entrance fee – min €25 – will support a restoration project of a selected work of art at the Pinacoteca of Brera.
Relish a splendid early-autumn evening together with others who LOVE ITALY.
Savor thirst-quenching, organic Italian apple ciders (+/- 4,5% alcohol), apple juice, handcraft beer, and drinking vinegars that reflect the authentic, health-focused lifestyle of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, renown for its beautiful small apple farms cradled by magnificent natural landscapes, world heritage mountains, fertile valleys, and 297 fresh water lakes – and all produced with passion and select ingredients by our event sponsor Lucia Maria MELCHIORI.
Join us to offer a delightful gift to Italy. Thanks to you and our sponsors, 100% of funds raised plus the entrance fee – min €25 – will support a restoration project of a selected work of art at the Pinacoteca of Brera.
THANKS TO:
Become a SMALL BUSINESS SPONSOR NOW (min. €30) and get exposure for your activity online (here + American Exchange Rome website) and at the event. Make your ONE-SHOT DONATION and send your company logo + 20 words ASAP to events@american-exchange-rome.org!
About the Brera Art Gallery
The Pinacoteca di Brera is Milan’s most prestigious public gallery for paintings. The Gallery was officially established in 1809, even though a first heterogeneous collection with educational purpose existed already from 1776 – and then increased in the following years. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.
The Academy acquired the first paintings of its Pinacoteca during the reassignment of works of Italian art that characterized the Napoleonic era. Raphael’s Sposalizio (the Marriage of the Virgin) was the key painting of the early collection, and the Academy increased its cultural scope by taking on associates across the First French Empire: David, Pietro Benvenuti, Vincenzo Camuccini, Canova, Thorvaldsen and the archaeologist Ennio Quirino Visconti.
The palazzo was built on the remains of a 14th century monastery of the Umiliati order which was subsequently given to the Jesuits, who founded a school here. Francesco Maria Richini began in the early 17th century to turn it into the solidly austere building we see today.
When the Jesuits were disbanded in 1773, the Collegio di Brera became state property and Empress Maria Theresa of Austria decided to use it to house several of the city’s leading cultural institutes. In addition to the Accademia di Belle Arti and the Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, she also assigned the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, the Osservatorio Astronomico and the Orto Botanico to her new foundation.
Brera’s Masterpieces
The Pinacoteca di Brera’s collection of works of art includes several of the greatest masterpieces in the history of art anywhere in the world. To mention a few, Lamentation over the Dead Christ by Andrea Mantegna, Marriage of the Virgin by Raphael, St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria by Gentile Bellini and Giovanni Bellini, the Kiss by Francesco Hayez, Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio and many many more.
