From 9 October to 6 January 2026
What is hidden 'inside' a work of art? The exhibition "Art from Inside." Masterpieces unveiled between art and science," a multidisciplinary cultural project conceived by Fondazione Bracco and presented for the first time in a large exhibition context like Palazzo Reale, from October 9, 2025, to January 6, 2026, poses to the visitor a question that is only seemingly simple but opens up to an entire universe: what is hidden behind - and inside - a work of art? A world of research, restoration, conservation, and enhancement, fundamental and often invisible aspects that the public is rarely invited to reflect upon.
"Art from Inside. Masterpieces unveiled between art and science" is an innovative project that combines art, research, and high dissemination. The exhibition path guides the visitor on a fascinating journey through art from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, revealing - thanks to diagnostic analyses and 1:1 scale reproductions - the hidden layers of eight masterpieces, through an immersive and multimedia narrative. In this dialogue between art and science, technology becomes a tool for reading and wonder, allowing access to dimensions normally not visible.
From Beato Angelico to Piero della Francesca, from Piero del Pollaiolo to the Leonardesque Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, to Caravaggio, Giovanna Garzoni - an artist among the greatest of her century - and a precious eighteenth-century violin by Lorenzo Storioni, the exhibition presents a pantheon of masters who have marked the history of Italian art, investigating their work from a new perspective.
Thanks to a thorough scientific investigation, each work reveals a "secret life": hidden decisions, regrets, changes in commission, compositional variations, and technical stratifications. All elements that escape direct observation, emerging instead thanks to the contribution of the most advanced diagnostic technologies. Where the eyes of the restorer and art historian stop, science intervenes today - revealing what has remained hidden beneath the surface for centuries. A radical and captivating immersion in the creative process of artists.
piazza Duomo, 12, Milan, Italy
Opening hours
| opens - closes | last entry | |
| monday | Closed now | |
| tuesday | 10:00 - 19:30 | 18:30 |
| wednesday | 10:00 - 19:30 | 18:30 |
| thursday | 10:00 - 22:30 | 21:30 |
| friday | 10:00 - 19:30 | 18:30 |
| saturday | 10:00 - 19:30 | 18:30 |
| sunday | 10:00 - 19:30 | 18:30 |
From 19 September to 12 January 2026
Widow Tintoretto. In dialogue
Palazzo Madama - Civic Museum of Ancient Art, Turin