The story
This gallery sits on the roof of the Lingotto, the vast former Fiat factory in Turin whose most famous feature is a car test track running around the top, the one used in the 1969 film The Italian Job. When the plant closed, Renzo Piano converted it, and hung a small steel box above the roofline, the Scrigno, or jewel case.
Inside are just 25 works, the private collection of Gianni and Marella Agnelli, the couple who ran Fiat. It is deliberately tiny and very rich: Venetian views by Canaletto and six Dresden scenes by Bellotto, a Manet, Renoirs, a Matisse and two Picassos, and a pair of Canova's marble dancers poised on their toes.
From the gallery you can step out onto the old test track itself, now planted as a garden, and walk the banked curves where Fiats were once driven flat out above the city.
