On Sunday at the museum: the museo Correr in Venice

Sunday March 20th, 2016 , Cities of Art, Museums

On Sunday at the museum: the museo Correr in Venice

Museo Correr Venice. This month “On Sunday at the museum” is dedicated to the Museo Correr, which, through its rich art collection, is capable of illustrating the thousand-year old history of Venice.

The museum originated from the collection belonged to the Venetian nobleman Teodoro Correr, who in 1830 donated to the city of Venice his palace and his art, book and document collection, offers various itineraries through which visitors can discover Venice from different points of view.
Here everything reflects the history of Venice, from the Reggia Neoclassica (Neoclassical Palace), to the sculptures by Canova; from the Picture Gallery to the Renaissance small bronzes; from the symbols of the military and economical power to the works by the most important Venetian artists.
Looking out of the big windows, overlooking St. Mark’s Square, you can admire the centre of Venice, where many events, illustrated in the museum, occurred.

Cerralbo Museum

Wednesday March 2nd, 2016 , Cities of Art, Museums

Cerralbo Museum, Madrid

Cerralbo Museum is the ancient residence of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, collector and marquis of Cerralbo.
The marquis had a great passion for art, and he collected paintings, a lot of items, and he promoted a lot of archaeological excavations.
From the beginning the palace was built in order to be both a residence and a place where all the artistic riches accumulated by the marquis himself and by his descendants could be stored.

MUNDA ( National Museum of Abruzzo) reopens

Monday February 29th, 2016 , Cities of Art, Museums

MUNDA ( National Museum of Abruzzo) reopens

National Museum of Abruzzo. On 6^th April 2009 an earthquake destroyed Aquila, capital of Abruzzo region. Now, after six years from that day and after three years of work, the National Museum of Abruzzo reopens. It houses more than one hundred of the most outstanding pieces of art from the collection that was displayed since 1949 in the sixteenth-century Castle, the Spanish Fortress.
The building was badly damaged by the earthquake.

The MUNDA has been located inside a building belonging to the industrial archaeology, the ancient municipal slaughter-house. The municipality has granted the Mibact a 30 years concession.

On sunday at the Museum: Civic Museum agli Eremitani, Palazzo Zuckermann

Sunday February 28th, 2016 , Cities of Art, Museums

ON SUNDAY AT THE MUSEUM: Civic Museum Agli Eremitani, Palazzo Zuckermann and a peek inside the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua

City Museums Padua. As you already know, each first Sunday of each month I talk about a visit to a museum (last month I wrote about the Doria Pamphilj Gallery in Rome), but this time I choose to immerge myself in a city I attended for a long time but I never paid close attention to its municipal art collection.

If you follow me on Instagram, you can easily understand that I’m talking about Padua, and you have seen my photos about my Sunday at the Civic Museum agli Eremitani, Palazzo Zuckermann and my detour to the Basilica of Saint Antony. In this post I’m talking about my visit to the Civic Museums in Padua.

If you are planning a visit to enjoy the historical heritage of Padua, I think your itinerary should include a visit to the Giardini dell’Arena di Padova, a must-see place where the Civic Museum Agli Eremitani, the most ancient museum in Veneto is located.
The museum includes the Archaeological Museum; the collection of Ancient Egypt finds of the Paduan explorer Giovanni Battista Belzoni; the Museum of Medieval and Modern Art; the Scrovegni Chapel (one of the most important masterpiece by Giotto), and Palazzo Zuckermann, which hosts the Museum of Applied Arts and the Museo Bottacin, a large collection of coins and medals donated by Nicola Bottacin to the city of Padua in 1865.
A heap of things to see! As they say.

I saw everything, except for the Scrovegni Chapel, because it is well worth a special visit. And I’m going to arrange it later.
I visited each room and I lost myself in the history of this city so special to me.
If you really want to know Padua, it will take you some time to visit this place, because many things will strike you.

I was fascinated by the rich Pinacoteca (picture gallery) which houses paintings from the 14^th century to the 19^th century, including works by Veronese, Tintoretto and Tiepolo, but also Giotto’s Crucifix, originally located above the altar inside the Scrovegni Chapel, a sight you can’t miss.
To be honest, Palazzo Zuckermann was a pleasant discovery.
The building hosts weapons, coins, paintings, sculptures, furniture and jewels which retrace the history of the rich merchant Nicola Bottacin.
There are also some items belonged to his friend Maximilian of Habsburg, the Emperor of Mexico, whom I talked about in my post about my visit to the Miramare Castle.
You can’t miss the Museo Bottacin, if you are fond of coin collecting. It is the richest and the most prestigious collection in Europe.
It retraces the history of the coin from the Ancient Greece, through the Roman age, the Byzantine age and the following ages, until the Lira, the pre-Euro currency and the Euro, the European Union currency.

Padua has always evoked pleasant emotions in me. I went there several times when I went to university. Although I attended Ca’ Foscari in Venice, my heart was in Padua. And I won’t say anything else!
It doesn’t matter…you’ve understood that I went to Padua under the pretext of studying, but actually I went there in order to meet my boyfriend of that time. He didn’t want to visit the Scrovegni Chapel, because it isn’t a good omen visiting it before you get your degree.
But now this place isn’t a danger anymore, so next time I’m going to oblige him to come with me, and I’m writing about our visit.

I’m sorry I couldn’t take any pictures (the pictures of this post belong to the preview of the exhibition dedicated to Felice Casori). The Civic Museums in Padua haven’t understood yet that it is necessary to share their inheritance in order to promote it.
What a pity!

NFO
City Museums Padua
Piazza Eremitani, 8 – Padua

Palazzo Zuckermann
Corso Garibaldi, 33 – Padua

LINK
https://padovacultura.padovanet.it/it/musei

The Piccolo Teatro in Milan or Carmagnola Palace

Friday January 29th, 2016 , Cities of Art, Museums

The Piccolo Teatro in Milan or Carmagnola Palace

Piccolo Teatro in Milan is Carmagnola Palace. A few months ago I wrote about the first event organized by the Art post Blog: a special day spent with some readers, walking along Milan at the time of Visconti and Sforza.
I had the occasion to see things I had never noticed before.
When I’m in Milan I’m usually in a hurry, but thanks to Laura, who was our tour guide that day, I discovered together with you all the stories this city is still keeping up.

The main character of one of this stories is the ancient Carmagnola Palace, the building that houses the “Piccolo Teatro”.
Here is its story.