It consists of 767 paintings, 116 sculptures, 51 objects and furnishings dating from the first century AD to the second half of the twentieth.

This policy continued after the Second World War, and increased with annual purchases of the Permanente company and exhibitions of religious art at the Angelicum.

Completing the collection of presidential portraits at the Cariplo, are paintings and sculptures of the nineteenth and twentieth century depicting many of the protagonists of the modern Italian economy.

The collection was inherited the aftermath of the Amato Law, the Cariplo Foundation increased as a result of subsequent donations (legacy Manara, Grolla, Marcenaro).

It holds almost two hundred artworks from the Cariplo collections and those of Intesa San Paolo, ranging from bas-reliefs by Antonio Canova to works by Umberto Boccioni.