Museum of international stature, the Brera Art Gallery was born alongside the Academy of Fine Arts, built by Maria Theresa of Austria in 1776, with educational purposes. It had become more of a collection of specimens, for the training of students. When Milan became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy the collection, by the will of Napoleon, turned into a museum that he intended to explain the most important paintings from all territories conquered by the rancesi armies. From the early years of the nineteenth century, even after the suppression of many religious orders, we merged the requirements paintings from churches and monasteries in Lombardy, which were added to the works of the same origin stolen from various departments of the Kingdom of Italy. Collects salt in 38 masterpieces of Italian artists from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century and some of the biggest foreign artists. Among the most famous artists Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Raffaello, Bramante, Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Bellini, Bronzino. In the courtyard entrance it can see the work of Canova that is the effigy of Napoleon. Among the most famous pictures stored there stands the "Marriage of the Virgin" by Raffaello, the "Dead Christ" by Mantegna, the "Pieta" by Bellini. At the center of the courtyard is a bronze of Napoleon I sculpted by Canova.