The Museo d'arte is a

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for

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and

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. 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

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and a

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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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. The original works include

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s, drawings, oil paintings, and

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done by

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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 850-1916 ''Napoli paescatori'' (1876); * Achille D'Orsi 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 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 ''La guardianella'' (1930); * Salvatore Petruolo 857-1946 ''Paesaggio innevato'' (1874); * Oscar Ricciardi 864-1935 ''Costiera Amalfitana'' (1893); * Raffaele Tafuri 857-1929 ''Angolo di Pedavena'' (1910) and ''Tetti'' (1920); * Vincenzo Volpe 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 Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( , ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the '' scuola metafisica'' art movement, which profoundly influ ...

888-1978 ''I fuochi sacri'' (1929), ''Gli archeologi'' (1969) and ''I mobili nella valle'' (1971); *

Pietro D’Achiardi Pietro D'Achiardi (28 October 1879, Pisa – 18 December 1940, Rome) was an Italian painter, art historian, art critic, and museum director. Biography He was born to the mineralogist, Antonio D'Achiardi and his wife, Marianna, née Camici. Hi ...

879-1940 ''Paesaggio di Lorenzana con calesse'' (1937); * Pierre Laprade 875-1931 ''Amour et Psyché'' (1925); * Atanasio Soldati 896-1953 ''Composizione'' (1949); *

Ugo Attardi Ugo Attardi (12 March 1923 in Sori – 20 July 2006 in Rome) was an Italian painter, sculptor and writer. Attardi moved from Genoa to Rome in the early 1950s, where he formed the group Forma 1 together with other artists such as Carla Accar ...

926-2006 ''Il viaggio di Ulisse'' (1990-2000); * Antonio Corpora 909-2004 ''Il cielo sugli alberi'' (1994); *

Salvatore Fiume Salvatore Fiume (23 October 1915 – 3 June 1997) was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, writer and stage designer. His works are kept in some of the most important museums in the world, among which the Vatican Museums, the Hermitage of ...

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 Renato Guttuso (26 December 1911 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian painter and politician. His best-known works include ''Flight from Etna'' (1938–39), ''Crucifixion'' (1941) and ''La Vucciria'' (1974). Guttuso also designed for the theatre ( ...

911-1987 ''Natura Morta'' (1981); *

Michelangelo Pistoletto Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 23 June 1933) is an Italian painter, action and object artist, and art theorist. Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera. His work mainly deals with the subject mat ...

933 ''Frattale bianco 4155372973840013258495611017395261542'' (1999-2000); * Ernesto Treccani 920-2009 ''Maternità'' (1980-1990); * Ezelino Briante 901-1971 ''Porto di Torre del Greco'' (1965); * Remo Brindisi 918-1996 ''Guerriero'' (1979); * Tonino Caputo 933 ''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 ''Uccello di Bretagna'' (1990); * Carmelo Fodaro

936 Year 936 ( CMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * June 19 – At Laon, Louis IV, the 14-year old son of the late King Charles the Simple, ...

''Natura morta'' (1970-1989); * Felicita Frai 909-2010 ''Fiori modesti'' (1989); * Giovan Francesco Gonzaga 921-2007 ''I due corsieri'' (1995) and ''Paesaggio Bergamasco'' (2000); * Beppe Guzzi 902-1982 ''Ville'' (1970); * Bruno Landi

941 Year 941 ( CMXLI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * May – September – Rus'–Byzantine War: The Rus' and their allies, t ...

''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 Year 951 ( CMLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * King Berengar II of Italy seizes Liguria, with help from the feudal lord Oberto I. He re ...

''Girasoli'' (2001); * Alfonso Fratteggiani Bianchi

952 Year 952 ( CMLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – At the Reichstag in Augsburg (assembled by King Otto I), joined by German nob ...

''Colore Blu 23050'' (2014); *

Rabarama Rabarama, pseudonym of Paola Epifani, (born August 22, 1969) is an Italian contemporary artist. Artistic practice Rabarama creates sculptures and paintings of men, women and hybrid creatures, often in eccentric poses. The skins of her subjects ...

969 Year 969 ( CMLXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 1st millennium, the 69th ...

''Palpit-azione'' (2010); * Paola Romano

''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