An art city and a fashion, business and nightlife capital, as well as a testing ground for urban planning with the 2015 Expo: with over one hundred photographs, this volume offers a fascinating tour of the architecture, masterpieces and hidden corners of Milan. The volume provides an all-round view of the city, by taking into account those aspects which make it unique: art, fashion, nightlife, design, historic districts, trivia, the San Siro stadium—a veritable football temple—and La Scala theater, a temple to opera. The most evocative features of an ever-evolving city encapsulated in a not-to-be-missed volume.

The city of Milan encloses some of the most important masterpieces of Italian art. This special guide to the city, realized on the occasion of the 2015 Expo, offers an art histor - ical tour focusing on ten works not to be missed by visitors: Leonardo’s Last Supper , Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pieta , Raphael’s Marriage of the Virgin , Piero della Francesca’s Brera Madonna , Caravaggio’s Basket of Fruit , the Portrait of a Lady attributed to Pollaiolo, Andrea Mantegna’s Lamentation of Christ , but also Francesco Hayez’s Kiss , Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo’s Fourth Estate and Umberto Boccioni’s Riot in the Galleria.

An art city and a fashion, business and nightlife capital, as well as a testing ground for urban planning with the 2015 Expo: with over one hundred photographs, this volume offers a fascinating tour of the architecture, masterpieces and hidden corners of Milan. The volume provides an all-round view of the city, by taking into account those aspects which make it unique: art, fashion, nightlife, design, historic districts, trivia, the San Siro stadium—a veritable football temple—and La Scala theater, a temple to opera. The most evocative features of an ever-evolving city encapsulated in a not-to-be-missed volume.

The city of Milan encloses some of the most important masterpieces of Italian art. This special guide to the city, realized on the occasion of the 2015 Expo, offers an art histor - ical tour focusing on ten works not to be missed by visitors: Leonardo’s Last Supper , Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pieta , Raphael’s Marriage of the Virgin , Piero della Francesca’s Brera Madonna , Caravaggio’s Basket of Fruit , the Portrait of a Lady attributed to Pollaiolo, Andrea Mantegna’s Lamentation of Christ , but also Francesco Hayez’s Kiss , Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo’s Fourth Estate and Umberto Boccioni’s Riot in the Galleria.