Giberto Borromeo Arese
Giberto Borromeo Arese was an Italian aristocrat, painter, and patron of the arts..
Arese was born and died in Milan, the eldest son of Count Vitaliano and later as his heir. He completed his legal studies at the Collegio Borromeo in Pavia. He was a member of the Academies of Genoa, Turin, Naples, and Perugia, curator of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, chair and then, until his death, counselor of the Brera Academy, and member of the board of directors of the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano. He was also a founder of the Società Storica Lombarda, serving as its president from January 1874 to December 1877.
