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and contemporary art. It is in

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, Italy. The museum was opened on 2 January 1995. It was developed from the private gallery of O. Stefano into a museum open to the public. The design for the museum building was ready in September 1993. It was finished in December 1994. The museum has a library and a documentary film library. It plays video documentaries and speeches by famous art critics.

Collection

Currently the museum exhibition presents to the public a few selected works of

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and contemporary art. The original works include sculptures, drawings, oil paintings, and

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done by etching,

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and

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Artists

Artists in the museum's permanent exhibition include:

Nineteenth century

* Saverio Francesco Altamura 822-1897 ''Ritratto di scolaretta a Capri'' (1893); *

Giovanni Battista Giovanni Battista was a common Italian given name (see Battista for those with the surname) in the 16th-18th centuries. It refers to "John the Baptist" in English, the French equivalent is "Jean-Baptiste". Common nicknames include Giambattista, Gia ...

858-1925 ''Pescatori sulla scogliera'' (1886) and ''Pescatori a Sorrento'' (1892); * Pietro Bouvier 839-1927 ''La cacciagione'' (1897); * Gabriele Carelli 820-1900 ''Convento dei Cappuccini, Amalfi'' (1899); * Giovanni Colmo 867-1947 ''Alberi intrecciati'' (1915); * Antonio Coppola

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''Napoli paescatori'' (1876); *

Achille D'Orsi Achille D'Orsi (6 August 1845 – 8 February 1929) was an Italian sculptor from Naples. Like his Neapolitan contemporary, Vincenzo Gemito, he worked in the Verismo style of Realism Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to: In the art ...

845-1829 ''Scugnizzo: acquaiolo'' (1915); * Walter Duncan 848-1932 ''Fanciulla nel bosco'' (1898) and ''Venditrice di fiori a St. Martin in the Fields'' (1919); *

Gaetano Gigante Gaetano Gigante (1770 in Naples – 1840) was an Italian painter and engraver, active mainly in Naples, Italy. He was the father of Giacinto Gigante, one of the main painters of the School of Posillipo, Emilia Gigante and Ercole Gigante (1815& ...

770-1840 ''Assunzione della Vergine'' (1815); *

Vincenzo Irolli Vincenzo Irolli (30 September 1860 – 27 November 1949) was an Italian painter. Biography Vincenzo Irolli was born in Naples. He enrolled at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, where his masters included Gioacchino Toma, in 1877 and graduated ...

860-1949 86 may refer to: * 86 (number), a natural number * 86 (term), a slang term for getting rid of something Dates * 86 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar * AD 86, a common year of the Julian calendar * 1986, a common year of the Gregoria ...

''La guardianella'' (1930); *

Salvatore Petruolo Salvatore Petruolo (January 4, 1857 in Catanzaro, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies – 1946 in Naples, Italy), was an Italian painter. Petruolo was a pupil of Gabriele Smargiassi at the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples. He is famous for his coas ...

857-1946 ''Paesaggio innevato'' (1874); * Oscar Ricciardi 864-1935 ''Costiera Amalfitana'' (1893); *

Raffaele Tafuri Raffaele Tafuri (1857–1929) was an Italians, Italian painter. He was born on January 27, 1857, in Salerno. He died in 1929 in Venice. He completed his early studies in the family, then moved to Naples at the Institute of Fine Arts, in the city o ...

857-1929 ''Angolo di Pedavena'' (1910) and ''Tetti'' (1920); *

Vincenzo Volpe Vincenzo Volpe (December 14, 1855 – February 9, 1929) was an Italian painter. From 1874 to 1890, he painted mostly genre scenes. From 1891 to 1896, he concentrated on religious art, then returned to genre works and portraits. Biography He was ...

855-1929 ''Donna con chitarra'' (1895).

Twentieth century

* Francesco Cangiullo 884-1966 ''In città'' (1953) *

Carlo Carrà Carlo Carrà (; February 11, 1881 – April 13, 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number ...

881-1966 ''Onde'' (1924) and ''Bagnate'' (1924); * Giorgio de Chirico 888-1978 ''I fuochi sacri'' (1929), ''Gli archeologi'' (1969) and ''I mobili nella valle'' (1971); * Pietro D’Achiardi 879-1940 ''Paesaggio di Lorenzana con calesse'' (1937); * Pierre Laprade 875-1931 ''Amour et Psyché'' (1925); * Atanasio Soldati 896-1953 ''Composizione'' (1949); * Ugo Attardi

926-2006 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

''Il viaggio di Ulisse'' (1990-2000); * Antonio Corpora

909-2004 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the Brahmi numerals, beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshat ...

''Il cielo sugli alberi'' (1994); * Salvatore Fiume 915-1997 ''Natività'' (1995); *

Emilio Greco Emilio Greco (11 October 1913 in Catania, Sicily – 5 April 1995) was an Italian people, Italian sculpture, sculptor, engraver, medallist, writer and poet. He is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the wor ...

913-1995 ''Aretusa'' (1989); * Renato Guttuso 911-1987 ''Natura Morta'' (1981); * Michelangelo Pistoletto

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''Frattale bianco 4155372973840013258495611017395261542'' (1999-2000); *

Ernesto Treccani Ernesto Treccani (Milan, 26 August 1920 – Milan, 27 November 2009) was a visual artist, writer and political activist. Biography Treccani was born in Milan. He joined very early on the art avant-garde groups and movements opposed to Fascist c ...

920-2009 ''Maternità'' (1980-1990); * Ezelino Briante

901-1971 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

''Porto di Torre del Greco'' (1965); *

Remo Brindisi Remo Brindisi (25 April 1918 – 25 July 1996) was an Italian painter. Biography Born in Rome, Brindisi was trained by his father, a skilled wood carver, in Pescara and L'Aquila. Having attended the Experimental Centre of Stage Design in Rome for ...

918-1996 ''Guerriero'' (1979); * Tonino Caputo

''Il cortile'' (1987); * Lucio Cargnel 903-1998 ''Paesaggio di periferia'' (1963); *

Mario Ceroli Mario Ceroli (born 1938) is an Italian sculptor. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi. One of his sculptures is on the Luigi Einaudi campus of the Univ ...

938 Year 938 ( CMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – The Hungarian army invades Northern Italy with the permission of King H ...

''Icosaedro'' (1980-1999); * Nino D'Amore

949 Year 949 ( CMXLIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Arab-Byzantine War: Hamdanid forces under Sayf al-Dawla raid into the theme of Ly ...

''Piano di Sorrento'' (2014); * Gianni Dova

925-1991 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

''Uccello di Bretagna'' (1990); * Carmelo Fodaro 936 ''Natura morta'' (1970-1989); *

Felicita Frai Felicita Frai (Prague, 1909 – Milan, 2010) was a Czechoslovak painter. Biography After dropping out of university in her native city she moved to Italy, living first in Trieste and then Ferrara. Here she studied fresco painting under Achille Fu ...

909-2010 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

''Fiori modesti'' (1989); *

Giovan Francesco Gonzaga Giovan Francesco Gonzaga was an Italians, Italian painter and sculptor. He was born on June 12, 1921, in Milan. He died on October 2, 2007, in Milan. Biography As a teen he attended the Sforza Castle of Milan where he used to copy the works of ...

921-2007 ''I due corsieri'' (1995) and ''Paesaggio Bergamasco'' (2000); * Beppe Guzzi

902-1982 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

''Ville'' (1970); * Bruno Landi

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''Paesaggio'' (1987); *

Renzo Vespignani Renzo Vespignani (1924 - 26 April 2001)"Francis Bacon" (list of biographies), 2001, ''KLEINOS edizione d'arte'' (Italian translated), webpage:. was an Italian painter, printmaker and illustrator. "Obituaries - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Renzo Vespig ...

924-2002 ''Marta'' (1982);

Twenty-first century

* Giancarlo Angeloni

966 Year 966 (Roman numerals, CMLXVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * 23 June - Arab-Byzantine Wars, Byzantine-Arab War: Arab-Byzantine ...

''Positano chiesa madre'' (2013); *

Maurizio Delvecchio Maurizio Delvecchio (born 22 May 1962) is an Italian painter. He was born in Basel, Switzerland into an Italian family. Back in Italy, with his parents, he graduated from the Art School in Ravenna. In 1985 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Ar ...

962 Year 962 ( CMLXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * December – Arab–Byzantine wars – Sack of Aleppo: A Byzantine e ...

''Il tramonto e l'attesa'' (2013); * Athos Faccincani 951 ''Girasoli'' (2001); * Alfonso Fratteggiani Bianchi 952 ''Colore Blu 23050'' (2014); * Rabarama 969 ''Palpit-azione'' (2010); *

Paola Romano Paola Romano (17 September 1951 - 15 September 2021) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Romano was born in Monterotondo, Rome. She began her artistic training in Rome, where she attended classes at the ''Rome University of Fine Arts'' (RUFA). ...

951 ''Luna sospesa bianca'' (2011).

References

Sources and bibliography

* (IT) A.A.V.V., "Mdao museo d'arte", in ''Tra arte e scienza. I musei privati di Avellino'', ACO associazione culturale, Avellino 2012, pp. 6–7. * (IT) A.A.V.V., "Museo d'arte Mdao", in ''Musei Avellino 2007'', ACO associazione culturale, Avellino 2007, pag.4. * (IT) CAMPITELLI F., ''MdAO Museo d'Arte'', MdAO, Avellino 2014, pp. 4. {{DEFAULTSORT:Museo d'arte - MdAO Art museums and galleries in Campania Buildings and structures in Campania Avellino