Crossword-Solution: BRERA 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Thus, certain pictures by Raphael, such as the famous _Transfiguration_, the _Madonna di Foligno_, and the frescoes of the _Stanze_ in the Vatican, do not at first captivate our admiration, as do the _Violin-player_ in the Sciarra Palace, the portraits of the Doria family, and the _Vision of Ezekiel_ in the Pitti Gallery, the _Christ bearing His Cross_ in the Borghese collection, and the _Marriage of the Virgin_ in the Brera at Milan.

And now we have to turn back to Leonardo's own studies, above all to one drawing of the central head at the Brera, which, in a union of tenderness and severity in the face-lines, reminds one of the monumental work of Mino da Fiesole, to trace it as it was.

And always, in looking, I have thought of the “Sposalizio” of Raphael in the Brera at Milan, of the tiny dream of blue country framed by the temple doorway beyond the Virgin and Saint Joseph.

There had been some talk of offering her the chair of poetry at the Brera; but the report of her liberal views had deterred the faculty.

The drawing of Christ's head, in the Brera palace at Milan was perhaps originally the work of Leonardo's hand; it has unfortunately been entirely retouched and re-drawn, so that no decisive opinion can be formed as to its genuineness.