The Brera Museum is composed primarily of works of the Lombard and Venetian schools of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries.

One example of the many great works there is this painting of Christ at dinner in Emmaus, by Carravegio.

The first room of the Museum of Ancient Art in the Sforzesco Castle contained mostly 14th century sculpture. The large piece in the center is for the tomb of Bernabo Visconti and is by Bonino.

A 12th century Relief of Porta Romana.

A 16th century Madonna and Child by Tondo.

Michelangelo was 89 when he started reworking a Pietà in his studio in Florence, a work that he had started a decade earlier. He entirely removed the head of Christ from the original composition, and began blocking out a much thinner figure, a more effective expression of departing life. He worked until four days before his death in 1564, leaving the Pietà incomplete. And so today, the Pietà Rondanini incorporates parts of the original sculpture – Christ's legs, and what remains of the right arm – along with what Michelangelo had managed to complete of his new concept.

He started to alter the position of Christ by carving the new head of Christ from the right shoulder of Mary. Christ's right arm was also to have been removed, but Michaelangelo died before he was to complete this statue.

Here we see the beginning of what would be the new right arm of Christ. We also see how the body of Christ is now carved from the body of Mary.

This is the other side of the statue and it also shows how the body of Christ is carved from the original body of Mary

A closeup of the faces of Mary and Jesus.

Arrivederci.