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Museums In Italy
This is a list of museums in Italy. List of museums by city * Alfedena ** Museo civico aufidenate Antonio De Nino * Amalfi ** Museo della Carta di Amalfi ** Diocesan Museum of Amalfi * Ancona ** Museo Archeologico Nazionale ** Museo Omero ** Pinacoteca Civica "Francesco Podesti" * Aquileia ** Museo Nazionale Paleocristiano ** National Archaeological Museum * Arezzo ** Museo 'Ivan Bruschi' * Ariano Irpino ** ** ** ** City Museum and Ceramics Gallery ** * Ascoli Piceno ** Diocesan museum of Ascoli Piceno, Italy * Atri ** Museo capitolare di Atri * Avellino ** Museo Irpino * Bari ** Museo di Castello Normanno Svevo ** Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari * Bassano del Grappa ** Poli Grappa Museum * Benevento ** Janua Museo delle Streghe ** MUSA ** Museo Capitolare ** Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Sannio ** Museo del Sannio *** Palazzo Paolo V *** Rocca dei Rettori *** Santa Sofia's Church ** Museo Diocesano ** Museo Egizio di Benevento * Bergamo ** Accademia Carrara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfedena
Alfedena ( la, Aufidena or Aufidenia, Neapolitan language, Abruzzese: ') is a ''comune'' in the province of L'Aquila of the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It is located in the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park in the upper Sangro valley, near the Monti della Meta mountain chain. History Alfedena was founded by the Samnites, who called it ''Aufidena'', because of its excellent strategic view over the high Sangro valley. It occupied two hills, both over above sea-level; in the valley between were found the supposed remains of the later forum (Roman), forum. Alfedena was the setting of several conflicts through its history because of this location. It was a district of the Samnites before it was the capital town of the Caraceni tribe during their first settlement near the high Saro, the ancient name of today’s Sangro river. Alfedena was then conquered by the Romans in 298 BC, and by the Lombards during the 11th century. Main sights Many works of art, such as the Ponte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocesan Museum Of Ascoli Piceno, Italy
The Diocesan Museum in the Italian town of Ascoli Piceno is located in one wing of the ecclesiastical Palace#Italy, palazzo, which also contains the city's pinacoteca and the state archeological museum. Created with the aim of reuniting and preserving as much of the artistic patrimony of the diocese of Ascoli-Piceno as possible, the museum was opened in 1961 by bishop Marcello Morgante. The space consists of seven areas that house Sculpture, wooden and stone sculpture, paintings on canvas and wood, Household silver, silver and sacred vestments made by the minor schools of the city that had a notable growth in the 1400s. There is also notable Florentine art of the 16th century. Many of the objects come directly from the city of Ascoli, while others were recovered from elsewhere in the diocesan territory. As a whole, the collection includes works from the 13th century to the present day. Rooms in the Museum * ''The entrance'' contains a terracotta polychrome cross dated to betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janua Museo Delle Streghe
''Janua'' is a genus of polychaetes, containing the following subgenera and species: ;''Dexiospira'' Caullery & Mesnil, 1897 *'' Janua ainu'' Uchida, 1971 *'' Janua bushi'' (Rioja, 1942) *'' Janua ceylonica'' (Pillai, 1960) *'' Janua corrugata'' (Montagu, 1803) *'' Janua glossoeides'' Harris, 1968 *'' Janua karaitivensis'' (Pillai, 1960) *'' Janua marioni'' (Caullery & Mesnil, 1897) *'' Janua nipponicus'' (Okuda, 1934) *'' Janua oshoroensis'' Uchida, 1971 *''Janua pagenstecheri ''Janua pagenstecheri'' is a species of marine polychaete. It is widely distributed around the British Isles and across north-western Europe, and has been described as "probably the commonest spirorbid in the world". ''Janua pagenstecheri'' liv ...'' (de Quatrefages, 1865) *'' Janua preacuta'' Vine, 1972 *'' Janua pusilloides'' (Bush, 1905) *'' Janua quasiacuta'' Lommerzheim, 1981 † *'' Janua semidentata'' (Bush, 1905) *'' Janua spirillum'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *'' Janua tricornigerus'' (Rioja, 1942) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benevento
Benevento (, , ; la, Beneventum) is a city and ''comune'' of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, northeast of Naples. It is situated on a hill above sea level at the confluence of the Calore Irpino (or Beneventano) and the Sabato. In 2020, Benevento has 58,418 inhabitants. It is also the seat of a Catholic archbishop. Benevento occupies the site of the ancient Beneventum, originally Maleventum or even earlier Maloenton. The meaning of the name of the town is evidenced by its former Latin name, translating as good or fair wind. In the imperial period it was supposed to have been founded by Diomedes after the Trojan War. Due to its artistic and cultural significance, the Santa Sofia Church in Benevento was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011, as part of a group of seven historic buildings inscribed as Longobards in Italy, Places of Power (568–774 A.D.). A patron saint of Benevento is Saint Bartholomew, the Apostle, whose relics are kept ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poli Grappa Museum
The Poli Grappa Museum is set up in Bassano del Grappa, the capital of Grappa, inside a palace of the fifteenth century, in front of the historic wooden Bridge "Ponte Vecchio". The history of distillation Distillation, or classical distillation, is the process of separation process, separating the components or substances from a liquid mixture by using selective boiling and condensation, usually inside an apparatus known as a still. Dry distilla ... and of Grappa is explained by means of a brief but detailed educational tour. The Museum consists of three little rooms: in the first hall, the reconstructed stills and collection of interesting documents will reveal the mysteries of the origin and the evolution of the art of distillation over the years. In the second hall, by means of pictures, stills and apparatus for making Grappa, it will be possible to appreciate and understand the reason why this Italian distillate is unique in the world. The objects' descriptions and the ima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassano Del Grappa
Bassano del Grappa ( vec, Basan or ''Bassan'', ) is a city and ''comune'', in the Vicenza province, in the region of Veneto, in northern Italy. It bounds the communes of Cassola, Marostica, Solagna, Pove del Grappa, Romano d'Ezzelino, Campolongo sul Brenta, Conco, Rosà, Cartigliano and Nove. Some neighbourhoods of these communes have become in practice a part of the urban area of Bassano, so that the population of the whole conurbation totals around 70,000 people. The 16th century painter Jacopo Bassano was born, worked, and died in Bassano, and took the town name as his own surname. History Prehistoric and Roman periods The city was founded in the 2nd century BC by a Roman called Bassianus, whence the name, as an agricultural estate. However, an ancient bronze sword (called "spada di Riccardo"), found in 2009 and dating back to the 7th century BC, possibly between the 18th and 15th century BC, suggests that the area of Bassano was already inhabited not just in the pre-Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinacoteca Provinciale Di Bari
The Pinacoteca metropolitana di Bari or Pinacoteca C. Giaquinto is a public gallery of paintings and museum of artworks in the city of Bari, Italy. The museum displays a range of artistic works connected to the region of Apulia. History The gallery was founded July 12, 1928 and was initially located at the local government center. The Pinacoteca was named in honor of the painter Corrado Giaquinto. In 1936, it moved to the province's palace, by the sea in Bari, where it now stands. The collection contains works by artists such as Bartolomeo Vivarini, Paris Bordon, Giovanni Bellini, Tintoretto, Palma il Giovane, Pacecco De Rosa, Luca Giordano, Corrado Giaquinto, Francesco De Mura, Giuseppe De Nittis, Giovanni Boldini, Francesco Netti, Giorgio de Chirico, and Giorgio Morandi. Collection *A medieval section *Venetian paintings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries donated by numerous Apulia Churches *Apulian paintings from late medieval and Neapolitan school from beginning mediev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bari
Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples. It is a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas. The city itself has a population of 315,284 inhabitants, over , while the urban area has 750,000 inhabitants. The metropolitan area has 1.3 million inhabitants. Bari is made up of four different urban sections. To the north is the closely built old town on the peninsula between two modern harbours, with the Basilica of Saint Nicholas, the Cathedral of San Sabino (1035–1171) and the Hohenstaufen Castle built for Frederick II, which is now also a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat quarter (erected by Joachim Murat), the modern heart of the city, which is laid out on a rectangular grid-plan with a promenade on the sea and the majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
