Montrasio Arte founded in Monza in 1939 by Piero and Luigi Montrasio, on Carlo Alberto street. The Art Gallery during that period managed mostly paintings from 19th and 20th century, centering the activity on the quality of authors and their pieces and paintings. During the following years paintings and pieces from Giovanni Boldini, Giuseppe De Nittis and Giovanni Fattori; Andrea Appiani and Francesco Hayez; Angelo Morbelli and Carlo Fornara; Mosè Bianchi, Emilio Gola, Pompeo Mariani and Eugenio Spreafico, whom the gallery keeps the archives. The authors mostly exhibited from the 20th century in solo or group exhibitions have been: Giacomo Balla, Anselmo Bucci, Albin Egger Lienz, Gian Emilio Malerba, Arturo Martini, Guido Marussig and Adolfo Wildt. Around 1960 Montrasio Arte moves in de Amicis street and in 1963, under the direction of Alberto Montrasio starts a very rich exhibitions season oriented on the Contemporary Art. The most important exhibitions to remember are: Renato Birolli, Bruno Cassinari, Alfredo Chighine, Roberto Crippa, Gianni Dova, Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Ennio Morlotti, Emilio Scanavino, Tancredi; Floriano Bodini, Leonardo Cremonini, Gianfranco Ferroni, Franco Francese, Renato Guttuso, Gino Meloni, Karl Plattner, Antonio Recalcati, Bepi Romagnoni, Giuseppe Zigaina. In 1999 The Montrasio Arte returns on 40 Carlo Alberto street, opening a new space with an exhibition dedicated to great artists with whom the gallery is still today linked: Cremonini, Ferroni, Zigaina, Bodini, Perez. On 2001 Montrasio Arte opens a new space in Milano on Brera street, in the heart of the city close to the Accademia di Belle Arti, with an exhibition titled Realismi. From 2005 Montrasio Arte is under the direction of Francesca Montrasio (Monza’s Gallery) and Ruggero Montrasio (Milano’s Gallery) they represent the third generation of the Montrasio’s gallery. The Gallery organise between 6 and 7 solo exibitions, some group exhibitions in spaces situated in Milano and Monza, with important success either in public attendance and printed critics. Since the foundation the Gallery related with important Museums, national and international Institutions to organise solo and group exhibitions and borrow pieces of art. In between the most recent: Alfredo Chighine (Palazzo Leone da Perego, Legnano 2005), Leonardo Cremonini (Museo della Permanente, Milano 2002; Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna 2003), Gianfranco Ferroni (Palazzo Leone da Perego, Legnano 2004), Lucio Fontana (Museo Bodini, Varese 2006), Andrea Martinelli (Museo della Permanente, Milano 2005; Fondation Rustin, Anversa 2006; Museo Scheringa, Amsterdam 2006), Guido Marussig (Museo Rivoltella, Trieste 2003), Giuseppe Zigaina (Museo della Permanente, Milano 2006). The Gallery is also a publishing company (edizioni MontrasioArte). The catalogue includes more then 100 titles and about 20 published for Italian and foreign Museums; it also takes care of the Aldo Bergolli and Bepi Romagnoni’ s estate. The future goals of the Montrasio Arte are: support the cultural commitment activating new sinergies with Artists, Critics, Museums, increase the publishing activity, developing cooperations with prestigious Publishing Companies, increase the archives of authors with whom they cooperate.