Miuccia Prada heads the Foundation

Fondazione Prada, a cultural institution created in 1993 by Miuccia Prada and…

Miuccia Prada heads the Foundation

Fondazione Prada, a cultural institution created in 1993 by Miuccia Prada and…

Miuccia Prada heads the Foundation

Fondazione Prada, a cultural institution created in 1993 by Miuccia Prada and…

Miuccia Prada heads the Foundation

Miuccia Prada has formalized her role as Fondazione Prada’s Director and confirmed her personal commitment to present and future projects, as she has done in the last three decades.

The recovery of the “Madonna and Child reading” by Andrea Solario

by Lavinia Galli, Conservator of the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan
The delightful Madonna and Child Reading by Andrea Solario (documented from 1495-1524), which was restored by Paola Zanolini thanks to the generosity of Wannenes, is a happy recovery for several reasons..

Methodological notes for the restoration of the “Madonna and Child Reading” by Andrea Solario

by Paola Zanolini, restorer
The restoration of a board painting is always a complex intervention as it has to deal with different conservation issues: those involving the support, the pictorial layer, the gilding and even the frame.

Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Through art we know beauty

Today, the collection comprises more than 6000 objects including paintings, sculptures, ceramics,…

Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Through art we know beauty

Today, the collection comprises more than 6000 objects including paintings, sculptures, ceramics,…

Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Through art we know beauty

Today, the collection comprises more than 6000 objects including paintings, sculptures, ceramics,…

Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Through art we know beauty

Today, the collection comprises more than 6000 objects including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, glass, weapons, gold, watches and textiles. For each collection, the museum holds extraordinary masterpieces, considered by critical literature to be the most important in the world. (…)