Category Archives: Art Gallery

Episcopal Museum of Vic, Spain

The Episcopal Museum of Vic (Catalan: Museu Episcopal de Vic, MEV) is a medieval art museum that maintains a magnificent collection of masterpieces of painting and sculpture from the Romanesque and Gothic period in Catalonia. Located next to the Cathedral of Vic, in the Osona region (Barcelona) it is declared a museum of national interest by the Generalitat de Catalunya. The Episcopal Museum of Vic conserves a magnificent collection of medieval art with paintings and sculpture from the Catalan Romanesque and Gothic periods. The collections of precious metals, textile, foundry, glass and ceramics offer a complete journey through the history of liturgical and decorative art in Catalonia. A wonderful collection of masterpieces; paintings and sculptures from the Catalan Romanesque and Gothic periods, together with outstanding collections of archaeology, jewellery, textiles, ironwork, glassmaking and pottery. A collection of exceptional value comprising over 29,000 items. All of the collections housed in the…

Masséna Museum, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

The Massena Museum is a city municipal museum Nice installed in one of the last houses of prestige of the xix th century the Promenade des Anglais. The Masséna museum, architectural jewel of the Promenade des Anglais, evokes, through its collections, the art and history of the riviera from the joining of Nice to France until the end of the Belle Epoque. All the works evoke this theme through a scenography that combines graphic arts, furniture and objects from this period and more particularly history. Among other things on display are Napoleon’s death mask made by Doctor Arnolt, Joséphine’s tiara in mother-of-pearl, gold, pearls and colored stones offered by Murat to the Empress and the book written by Prefect Liegeard. The visitor will be able to meet the landscape painters of the 19th century and more particularly Joseph Fricero, Antoine Trachel or Alexis Mossa… It should be noted that the…

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, also called Mamac, is a museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art open since June 21, 1990in Nice. Located in the heart of the city, next to Place Garibaldi and in the extension of the “Coulée Verte”, MAMAC offers a dive in the International Postwar Art from 1950’s to nowadays. With a collection of nearly 1 400 works by more than 350 artists, (with an average of 200 on display), the museum offers – among others – an original dialogue between the European New Realism and American Pop Art. The museum also displays key works of minimal art and arte povera. Two major artists of the 20th century art form the heart of the collections: Yves Klein, with a permanent room that is unique in the world, made possible thanks to the long-term loans of the Yves Klein Archives, and Niki de Saint…

Matisse Museum in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

The Matisse Museum in Nice is dedicated to the work of the French painter Henri Matisse. It brings together one of the world’s largest collections of his works, which allows us to retrace his artistic journey and his developments from his beginnings to his latest works. Housed in the Villa des Arenes, a Genoese villa of the xvii th century the area of Cimiez, the museum opened its doors in 1963. Classified as “Musée de France,” the Musée Matisse covers a total surface of 2,800 m2, of which 1,200 m2 of exhibition spaces spans the villa and the expansion. In 2013, the ceramic La Piscine, a gift from Claude and Barbara Duthuit, was installed in a dedicated room, on the entrance level. In 2017, a renovation campaign began. It began with a recasting of the visitors’ itinerary, the remodeling of the entrance space and the installation of educational devices. The…

Royal Palace of Venaria, Turin, Italy

Royal Palace of Venaria (Italian: Reggia di Venaria Reale) is a former royal residence and gardens located in Venaria Reale, near Turin in the Metropolitan City of Turin of the Piedmont region in northern Italy. With 80,000m² in palace area and over 950.000m² in premises, it is one the largest palaces in the world. It is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, included in the UNESCO Heritage List in 1997. Restored to the baroque magnificence to which it was inspired in the mid-1600s by Duke Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy, the Reggia di Venaria is once again a symbol of modernity and culture. Since its opening in 2007, after two centuries of neglect and decay and eight intense years of restoration, La Venaria Reale has become one of Italy’s five most visited cultural sites. The palace of Venarìa was designed by the architect Amedeo di Castellamonte.…

Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France

The Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM) is an art museum located in the village of Mougins, in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France. It is 30 minutes from Nice airport and 15 minutes from the centre of Cannes. The museum has won several international awards and has loaned dozens of objects to other museums and university exhibitions all over the world. Discover, at the entrance of the old village of Mougins, how the beauty of the ancient world has influenced neoclassical, modern and contemporary art. The museum’s large and diverse collection of antiquities includes Roman, Greek and Egyptian sculpture, vases, coins, and jewellery, and the world’s largest private collection of ancient arms and armour. The museum’s large and diverse collection of antiquities includes Roman, Greek and Egyptian sculpture, vases, coins, and jewellery, and also the world’s largest private collection of ancient arms and armour. These ancient artworks are interspersed with…

Villa Arson, Nice, France

National School of Fine Arts at the Villa Arson,(École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts à la Villa Arson), is a French art museum, elite school and research institution for contemporary art, located in Nice, France. It is home to the National Centre for Contemporary Art created under a ministerial charter in 1972 by the Ministry of Culture. Built on Saint-Barthélémy hill, the Villa Arson property extends over more than two hectares offering a magnificent view over the city of Nice and the Bay of Angels. A maze of intermingled concrete, stone and vegetation, with inner streets and patios, outdoor amphitheaters, suspended terraces and gardens, harmoniously connecting around the old mansion of the Arson family. Designed in the 60s by architect Michel Marot, this singular architectural ensemble built in the middle of a Mediterranean garden should be discovered during a leisurely stroll. The low built architecture, which has no façade, extends over 17,000…

Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy

Palazzo Monti is an artist residency program based in Brescia, housed in a palazzo dating back to 1200. Palazzo Monti, launched in March 2017, is an Artist Residency program located in an eight centuries old palazzo in the city of Brescia, Italy. The building also hosts Edoardo Monti’s private collection. The project is completely independent from any institutions and funded by the Monti family. Artists are selected anonymously by the Board whose members are based in New York, London, Seoul, Paris and Brescia. The program is open to all international artists and offers the opportunity to explore different mediums. The residency program is working with a diverse range of local artisans, which gives the opportunity to explore new productions. The Palazzo is an incubator for creativity and productivity, offering artists a chance to find inspiration, forge new relationships and create collaborations. Built in the XIII century, the residence is conveniently…

Buonarroti house, Florence, Italy

Casa Buonarroti is the house-museum in Florence dedicated to Michelangelo and his descendants, who lived here by embellishing the house. It is located in via Ghibellina 70, on the corner with via Buonarroti. Buonarroti house is a museum and a monument, a place of memory and of celebration of the genius of Michelangelo and, at the same time, a sumptuous baroque display and exhibition of the rich art collections of the family, the Casa Buonarroti offers one of the most interesting visitor experiences among the many museums of Florence. It offers the unique pleasure of seeing two famous reliefs in marble, masterpieces of the young Michelangelo: the Madonna of the Stairs, and the Battle of the Centaurs. History of the building The building was a property owned by the sculptor Michelangelo, which he left to his nephew, Leonardo Buonarroti. The house was converted into a museum dedicated to the artist…

Madama Palace, Turin, Italy

Palazzo Madama and Casaforte degli Acaja is an architectural and historical complex located in the central Piazza Castello in Turin. Having played a leading role in its history from Roman times through to the present day, it was declared a World Heritage Site with the other Residences of the House of Savoy in 1997. Palazzo Madama, as part of the Savoy Residences serial site. The building houses the Civic Museum of Ancient Art. It is a combination of two thousand years of Turin ‘s history, from the ancient eastern gate of the Roman colony of Julia Augusta Taurinorum to a defensive stronghold, then to a real castle, a symbol of Savoy power until at least the sixteenth century, when the current Royal Palace, as the seat of the Duke of Savoy. The western part of the first medieval complex was later called Palazzo Madama because it was first inhabited by…

Oriental Art Museum in Turin, Italy

The Museum of Oriental Art (MAO) is a museum contains one of the most important collections of Asian art in Italy. The collection works represents cultural and artistic traditions from across the Asian continent. Overview MAO, the Museum of Oriental Art, is located in the historic 18th-century seat of Palazzo Mazzonis. The museum’s heritage encompasses some 1500 works, in part from the pre6thous collections amassed by various city institutions, in part acquired in the past few years. The Museum’s exhibition layout is di6thded into f4the cultural areas: South Asia, China, Japan, the Himalayan Region and Islamic countries. This layout corresponds naturally with the building’s physical structure which is di6thded into the same number of interlinked but structurally separate exhibition spaces used to house the various sections. The museum opened on December 5, 2008, with the merger of the Asian collection of the Turin City Museum of Ancient Art at the…

Rivoli Castle Contemporary Art Museum, Turin, Italy

The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Castello di Rivoli is an Italian museum dedicated to contemporary art. It is located in the Savoy residence of the castle of Rivoli, in Rivoli, in the province of Turin. The museum’s activity was inaugurated on 18 December 1984 with the Ouverture exhibition, curated by the then director Rudi Fuchs. The exhibition included works created by exponents of conceptual art, minimalism, Land Art, poor art and transavantgarde, and was conceived as the ideal model for a permanent collection to be established however only later, starting from the nineties. History Thanks to its strategic position near the Via Gallica, the hill of Rivoli has been inhabited by humans at least since Roman times. A fortified building, the “Castrum Riuollum,” is first mentioned in 1159. The earliest illustration, dating to 1609, shows a central tower surrounded by constructions of varying sizes, while along the foothills…

The Casina delle Civette, Rome, Italy

The Casina delle Civette Museum is a former residence of the Torlonia family transformed into a museum. It is located inside the park of Villa Torlonia in Rome. The name derives from the recurring theme of the owls inside and outside the cottage. In the nineteenth century it was known as the Swiss hut for its rustic appearance similar to that of an alpine refuge or a Swiss chalet. The Casina delle Civette was designed in 1840 by the architect Giuseppe Jappelli and later transformed by V. Fasolo in 1917–20. Since 1997 it has been an interesting museum dedicated to artistic stained glass. The twenty rooms of the Museum, characterised by painted walls, stucco work, mosaics, carved wooden panels, make up a route which includes: 54 pieces of stained glass replaced, after restoration, in their original positions; 18 pieces of stained glass acquired and displayed on separate frames; 105 sketches…

Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy

The Capitoline Museums are the main municipal civic museum structure in Rome, part of the ” System of shared museums ” with an exhibition area of 12,977 m². Open to the public in the year 1734, under Pope Clement XII, they are considered the first museum in the world, intended as a place where art could be used by everyone and not only by the owners. There is talk of “museums” in the plural, as the Pinacoteca was added to the original collection of ancient sculptures by Pope Benedict XIV in the 18th century, consisting of works illustrating mainly Roman subjects. The Museums’ collections are displayed in the two of the three buildings that together enclose the Piazza del Campidoglio: Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo, the third being the Palazzo Senatorio. These two buildings are linked by an underground tunnel, which contains the Galleria Lapidaria and leads to the…

Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture, Rome, Italy

The Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture is part of the Museums system in the Municipality of Rome and is located in the Parione district, near Campo de ‘Fiori. It collects several works of classical and Near Eastern art, donated to the Municipality by Baron Giovanni Barracco in 1904. Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture is a museum in Rome, Italy, featuring a collection of works acquired by the collector Giovanni Barracco, who donated his collection to the City of Rome in 1902. Among the works are Egyptian, Assyrian, and Phoenician art, as well as Greek sculptures of the classical period. The 400 works of the collection are divided according to the civilization and are displayed in nine rooms, on the first and second floors, while the ground floor contains a small reception area. On the first floor Egyptian works are presented in Rooms I and II. Room II includes…

National Academy of San Luca, Rome, Italy

The Accademia Nazionale di San Luca is an association of artists from Rome, officially founded in 1593 by Federico Zuccari, who was also its first director (Prince), with the assumption of raising the work of the artists above simple craftsmanship. The National Academy of Saint Luca has its origin in the institution established between the late 1500s and early 1600s when an ancient confraternity of painters associated with the Università delle Arti della Pittura held meetings at the little church of San Luca all’Esquilino in Rome (the church has since been demolished). In 1577 a papal bull issued by Pope Gregory XIII at the urging of the painter Girolamo Muziano instituted the Accademia delle Arti della Pittura, della Scultura e del Disegno (the “Academy of the Arts of Painting, of Sculpture and of Drawing”), but it would be 1593 before the Academy was symbolically “founded” by Federico Zuccari with the…

Boschi Di Stefano House Museum, Milan, Italy

The Boschi Di Stefano House Museum is a museum in the Municipality of Milan which has been open to the public since 2003. The apartment, formerly inhabited by husband and wife Antonio Boschi (1896-1988) and Marieda Di Stefano (1901-1968), hosts an exhibition of around three hundred works, including paintings, sculptures and furnishings belonging to their collection. The Boschi Di Stefano House-Museum is a historic home in Milan. It is located on the second floor of a building in via Giorgio Jan at number 15. Boschi Di Stefano House Museum at number 15, Via Giorgio Jan, Milan, has been open to the public since February 2003. In these rooms – once inhabited by the married couple Antonio Boschi (1896-1988) and Marieda Di Stefano (1901-1968) – are exhibited about three-hundred selected pieces from the whole collection, donated to the City of Milan in 1974. The collection – about two thousand works, over…

Diocesan Museum of Milan, Italy

The Diocesan Museum of Milan (or Diocesan Museum Carlo Maria Martini) is an art museum in Milan housing a permanent collection of sacred artworks, especially from Milan and Lombardy. Originally conceived by Ildefonso Schuster in 1931 as a vehicle to protect and promote the art collection of the Archdiocese of Milan, the museum was eventually established in the former headquarters of the Dominican Order in the back of the Basilica of Sant’Eustorgio with the support of Pope Paul VI. The Diocesan Museum of Milan was born in 2001 on the initiative of the Archdiocese of Milan with the aim of protecting, enhancing and making known the artistic treasures of the diocese in the context of the spiritual context that inspired them. In 2001 Carlo Maria Martini inaugurated the current venue located in Porta Ticinese. From the following year it is the scene of the initiative A masterpiece for Milan. The…

Museum of the 20th century, Milan, Italy

The Museum of the twentieth century in Milan is a permanent exhibition of 20th century works of art housed in the Palazzo dell’Arengario and the adjacent Royal Palace in Milan. The museum absorbed the collections of the previous Civic Museum of Contemporary Art (CIMAC) which was located on the second floor of the Royal Palace and which was closed in 1998. The Museum of the twentieth century, located inside the Palazzo dell’Arengario in Piazza del Duomo, hosts a collection of over four thousand works that catalyze the development of 20th century Italian art. The Museum of the twentieth century was established on 6 December 2010 with the goal of spreading knowledge of 20th century art and offering a more comprehensive insight into the collections that the city of Milan has inherited over time. Beside its core exhibition activity, the Museum is active in the conservation, investigation and promotion of 20th…

Capodimonte National Museum, Naples, Italy

The National Museum of Capodimonte is a museum in Naples, Italy, located inside the eponymous palace in the Capodimonte area, which houses several ancient art galleries, one of contemporary art and an apartment historical. It was officially opened as a museum in 1957, although the palace rooms have housed works of art since 1758. It predominantly preserves paintings, distributed mainly in the two main collections, the Farnese, which include some of the greatest names in Italian and international painting. such as Rafael, Tiziano, Parmigianino, Brueghel the Elder, El Greco, Ludovico Carracci or Guido Reni; and the Neapolitan Gallery, which is made up of works from churches in and around the city, transported to Capodimonte for security reasons after the suppression of religious orders, and features works by artists such as Simone Martini, Colantonio, Caravaggio, Ribera, Luca Giordano or Francesco Solimena. The contemporary art collection is also important, in which Vesuvius…

Grassi Palace, Venice, Italy

Palazzo Grassi is a Venetian civil building, located in the San Marco district and overlooking the Grand Canal. It is one of the most well-known lagoon buildings, in addition to being the site of art exhibitions worthy of particular interest: it is famous because it is defined as the last patrician palace overlooking the Grand Canal before the collapse of the Serenissima Republic of Venice. Inaugurated in 2006 and 2009, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana are the two contemporary art museums of the Pinault Collection in Venice. Renovated by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, they present personal and collective exhibitions. Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana aim to share with the public the knowledge and love for contemporary art through the extraordinary Pinault Collection and to strengthen the privileged relationship the institution has developed with artists, especially thanks to works specifically conceived for its exhibition spaces. History The palace stands…

Mocenigo Palace-Museum, Venice, Italy

The Mocenigo Palace-Museum is a palazzo near the Church of San Stae, south of the Grand Canal in the sestiere of Santa Croce in Venice, Italy. It is now a museum of fabrics and costumes, run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. Palazzo Mocenigo is a large building of gothic origin extensively rebuilt at the beginning of the 17th century, when it attained its present appearance. From 17th century, the palazzo was the residence of the San Stae branch of the Mocenigo family, one of the most important families of the Venetian patriciate, seven members of which became doges between 1414 and 1778. The external façades looking on to the street (salizàda) and San Stae canal are characterised by their large Serlian windows, a common feature in Venetian architecture during the 17th and 18th centuries History Palazzo Mocenigo is a large building of gothic origin extensively rebuilt at the…

National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

The National Art Museum of Catalonia, also known by its acronym MNAC, is a museum of art in the city of Barcelona which brings together all the arts whose mission is to preserve and exhibit the collection of Catalan art ‘s most important world, showing everything from Romanesque to the present. The MNAC is a consortium with its own legal personality constituted by the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Barcelona City Council and the General State Administration. In addition to the public administrations, individuals and private entities collaborating with the administration are represented on the museum’s board of trustees. The main headquarters are located in the National Palace of Montjuïc, opened in 1929 on the occasion of the International Exhibition. Three other institutions are also part of the museum as a whole: the Víctor Balaguer Museum Library in Vilanova i la Geltrú, the Garrotxa Museum in Olot and the Cau Ferrat…

Museum of Contemporary Art Bogotá, Colombia

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogotá, also known under the abbreviations of MAC, is a museum located in the Minuto de Dios neighborhood of Engativá, northwest of Bogotá, adjacent to the Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios. It has turned fifty years of anniversary. Founded in 1966, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogotá has a collection of contemporary art made up of more than 1,600 works by Colombian and international artists. It is considered a meeting point for various contemporary manifestations from the visual arts to sound, stage, electronic or literary works. Considered the main museum in northwestern Bogotá. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogotá, has a permanent collection of Colombian and latinamerican artists, and some Europeans and North Americans.The collection has over 1,000 works since the second half twentieth century to the present. History The Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogotá (MAC) as a cultural entity of…