The Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo is a public art collection in Brescia

Brescia

Brescia is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, between the Mella and the Naviglio, with a population of around 197,000. It is the second largest city in Lombardy, after the capital, Milan...

, Lombardy

Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...

, northern Italy

Italy

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, exhibiting mainly paintings by local artists from the 13th through 18th centuries.

The gallery opened in 1851 in the Palazzo Tosio, endowed in 1832 with the collection of Count Paolo Tosio and further enriched by donations and gathering of items from local religious buildings. For some paintings in the collection see the Category for Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia below.

In 1884, the Count Leopardo Martinengo da Barco added to the painting collection and endowed a library and collections of scientific artifacts to display in his palace.

The collection includes works by Vincenzo Foppa

Vincenzo Foppa

Vincenzo Foppa was a Northern-Italian Renaissance painter.He was an elderly contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci. Born at Bagnolo Mella, near Brescia in the Republic of Venice, he settled in Pavia around 1456, serving the dukes of Milan and emerging as one of the most prominent Lombard painters....

, Ferramola, Paolo Veneziano

Paolo Veneziano

Paolo Veneziano, also Veneziano Paolo or Paolo da Venezia was a medieval painter from Venice. He has been called "the most important Venetian painter of the 14thcentury"....

, Andrea Solario, Francesco Francia, Lorenzo Lotto

Lorenzo Lotto

Lorenzo Lotto was a Northern Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits...

, and Lattanzio Gambara

Lattanzio Gambara

Lattanzio Gambara was an Italian painter, active in a Renaissance and Mannerist styles.-Biography:Born in Brescia, as a 15 year old he initially apprenticed with Giulio Campi in Cremona, by 1549, he is working alongside Girolamo Romanino, who became his father-in-law. An altarpiece of S. Maria in...

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Partial Catalogue

Label	Painter	Work	Date	Link
	Raphael Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...	Fragments of Baronci altarpiece
	Raphael Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...	Blessing Christ
	Alessandro Bonvicino Alessandro Bonvicino Alessandro Bonvicino , more commonly known as Il Moretto da Brescia, was an Italian Renaissance painter of Brescia and Venice.-Biography:...  (il Moretto)	Christ's passion and angel	1550-54	http://www.wga.hu/html/m/moretto/eccehomo.html
	Pelagio Palagi Pelagio Palagi thumb|250px|Statue of [[Amadeus VI|Green Count]], made by Pelagi, in [[Piazza Palazzo di Città]], [[Turin]].Pelagio Palagi was an Italian painter, sculptor and interior decorator.- Early life :...	Newton discovers the refraction of light		http://www.bresciascienza.it/cityline/cult/zani/astro_bs.htm
	Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo	Adoration of the Shepherds	c. 1540	http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/painting/paintings/bigphotos/S/adoratio.jpg
	Luigi Basiletti Luigi Basiletti Luigi Basiletti was an Italian painter. He was born in Brescia. He painted a Cascade at Tivoli for the Brera Academy at Milan. He is also represented at the Galleria Tosio Martinengo in Brescia.-Sources:...	Landscape with figures (Aneas, Andromade, & Butrinto)	1811	http://mostrapaesaggi.comune.pv.it/immagini/galleria2/SEZ%202%20Basiletti%20Enea.JPG
	Giacomo Ceruti Giacomo Ceruti Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti was an Italian late Baroque painter, active in Northern Italy in Milan, Brescia, and Venice. He acquired the nickname Pitocchetto for his many paintings of peasants dressed in rags.He was born in Milan, but worked primarily in Brescia...	The Laundress		http://www.wga.hu/html/c/ceruti/laundres.html
	Giacomo Ceruti Giacomo Ceruti Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti was an Italian late Baroque painter, active in Northern Italy in Milan, Brescia, and Venice. He acquired the nickname Pitocchetto for his many paintings of peasants dressed in rags.He was born in Milan, but worked primarily in Brescia...	Women at work		http://www.italica.rai.it/index.php?categoria=arte&scheda=raffaello_ceruti
	Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.-Biography:...	Encounter of Jacob and Esau	1844	[]
	Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.-Biography:...			[]
	Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.-Biography:...	Portrait of Teresa Borri Stampa Manzoni	1847-48
	Giovanni Battista Moroni Giovanni Battista Moroni Giovanni Battista Moroni was a North Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He is also called Giambattista Moroni...	Portrait of a Doctor (The Magistrate)	1560	http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/Great-Painters-in-Brescia/Portrait-of-a-Doctor.htm
	Justice and Peace kiss		[]
	Girolamo Romanino	Dinner in the home of Simon Pharisee		http://www.30giorni.it/it/articolo.asp?id=11551
	Angelo Inganni Angelo Inganni Angelo Inganni was an Italian painter.-Biography:Angelo Inganni was taught the basics of art by his father Giovanni and his elder brother Francesco, with whom he worked on fresco decorations from when he was young...	The grape harvest		http://www.unisi.it/ricerca/dip/dba/labcm/viticoltura/artevino/index.html

External links

• Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo