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Article: A family affair: the Liechtenstein Museum's exhibition of one of Italy's greatest private family collections is a revelation.(EXHIBITIONS)(Borromeo family)
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- February 1, 2008
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For most students of Italian patronage and collecting, the Borromeo family of Milan are most closely associated with two key figures of counter-reformation culture, Cardinal St Carlo Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan from 1563, and his first cousin, Cardinal Federico Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan from 1595. The cultural interests of both cousins--notably Federico's foundation of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in 1607 and the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in 1618--were explored and celebrated in an exhibition at the Museo Diocesano, Milan, in 2005-06, 'Carlo e Federico. La luce dei Borromeo nella Milano spagnuola'.
This new exhibition, organised by Mauro Natale, soon to retire as ...