A museum of international repute, the Pinacoteca di Brera was founded for educational purposes as part of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1776, by order of Maria Theresa of Austria. Its collection of exemplary works was used for training students. When Milano became capital of Italy, under Napoleon the museum was used to display the most important paintings from the throughout the territories conquered by the French at that time. Unlike many Italian museums, including the Uffizi in Florence, the Pinacoteca di Brera was not the result of the private collections of princes and aristocrats, but institutional planning and development. The splendid and vast collections span up to the 20th century and include celebrated works such as Raffaello’s Wedding of the Virgin, Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna with Child, Mantegna’s Lamentation Over the Dead Christ and Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus. The neoclassical palazzo that houses the Pinacoteca di Brera is also home to the Braidense National Library, an astronomic observatory, a botanical garden, the Academy of Fine Arts and the Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere.