RISO - Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Della Sicilia
Riso may refer to: Architecture and museums * Palazzo Riso, a contemporary art museum in Palermo, Italy Institutions and corporations * Riso Kagaku Corporation is a Japanese corporation which is the inventor, manufacturer, and distributor of the RISO Printer-Duplicator, a.k.a. Risograph. This device automatically creates a stencil-type master (from a paper original or digital file), thereby enabling ..., a Japanese manufacturer of duplicating machines * Risø National Laboratory, a scientific research organization in Denmark People * Don Richard Riso (1946–2012), author of several books on the Enneagram of Personality {{disambig ...
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Palazzo Riso
The Palazzo Riso, or RISO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia (''RISO, Contemporary Art Museum of Sicily'' also known as Palazzo Belmonte Riso), is a regional contemporary art museum located in the ancient Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Palermo, Italy. History and architecture The Palazzo Riso's architecture clearly shows the final days of Sicilian Baroque as it was transformed into Neoclassicism. Designed by the architect Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia, the house was constructed at the end of the 18th century and completed in 1784. It became property of the Prince of Belmonte, and in the 19th century it passed to Baron Riso. The marble Riso coat of arms on the portal of the palazzo was carved by Ignazio Marabitti. During World War II the building was damaged by Allied bombing. Restored from the mid-1990s, since 2008 it has become a contemporary