Pinacoteca
DON FERRANTE'S BOOKS IN THE BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA
An exhibition that aims at reconstructing the "considerable collection of books” belonging to Don Ferrante, which Alessandro Manzoni describes in the Promessi Sposi (The Bethroted).
Shown at the annual exhibition of the Accademia di Belli Arti di Brera in 1853, this painting is a portrait of Count Alessandro Negroni Prati Morosini, the son-in-law of Giovanni Battista and Emilia Morosini. The portrait is notable for its realism and unadorned austerity.