Ambrosiana
PORT ROYAL ET L'ITALIE
Annual international conference of the Society of Friends of Port-Royal is held, October 13-14 2023, Sala delle Accademie E.R. Galbiati.
From March 4 to 6, on the occasion of Museocity, the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana is open with a special price: € 10.00 full | € 7.00 reduced.
Furthermore, on the occasion of Museosegreto, in the Sala Federiciana, an exhibition features, inside the Bagatti Valsecchi cabinet, four original drawings by architects Francesco Maria Richino (Milan, 1584-1658) and Fabio Mangone (Milan, 1587-1629), which show the projects to the construction of the first nucleus of the Ambrosiana Library. Among them, there is a spectacular longitudinal section of the Federiciana Room, dating back to 1616-18, which shows us the room with the appearance it still has today.
Fabio Mangone, longitudinal section of the Ambrosiana Library, c. 1616.18