Milan's Sant'Eustorgio Museum Complex Launches with Dürer Exhibition

Fifteen years after Cardinal Martini inaugurated the Museo Diocesano di Milano in 2001, and following a turbulent start to 2016 marked by the controversial departure of longtime director Paolo Biscottini, the new Sant'Eustorgio museum complex has officially launched in Milan. The inaugural event is a two-and-a-half-month exhibition of Albrecht Dürer's "Adoration of the Magi" (1504), on loan from the Uffizi. The painting, which shows Italian landscape influences and probable Leonardesque ascendance, is displayed inside the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio. Opposite it, the early 20th-century Lombard goldsmith reliquary of the Magi has been placed in a more prominent position. This dialogue between painting and reliquary seals the unification of the Museo Diocesano, the Museo di Sant'Eustorgio, and the Basilica into a single museum complex with a combined ticket. The exhibition runs until February 5.