The Revoltella Museum ( it, Museo Revoltella) is a modern art gallery founded in

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...

in 1872 by Baron

Pasquale Revoltella Pasquale is a masculine Italian language, Italian given name and a surname mainly found in southern Italy. It is a cognate of the French language, French name Pascal (name), Pascal, the Spanish language, Spanish Pascual (disambiguation), Pascual, ...

. The baron, after he left his house to the city (located in Piazza Venezia) and all the works, furniture and books it contained.

Museum

The main building, designed by

Friedrich Hitzig Georg Friedrich Heinrich Hitzig (8 November 1811, in Berlin – 11 October 1881, in Berlin) was a German architect, born into the Jewish Itzig family, converted to Lutheranism. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. After his diploma in ...

, was built in 1858. In order to expand the original collection in 1907 the city acquired the Brunner palace located nearby. However, this building was only put to full use in 1963, following a reconstruction by

Carlo Scarpa Carlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 28 November 1978) was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape and the history of Venetian culture, and by Japan. Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and the tec ...

. The museum today is composed of three buildings with a total exhibition area of 4,000 square meters and the main entrance from Via Diaz.

Exhibits

In addition to the works bequeathed by baron Revoltella, the city also acquired additional artworks over the years. On permanent display today are about 350 paintings and sculptures. The Brunner palace host works of Italian authors of the second half of the 19th century (third floor), the works acquired in the early decades of the 20th century (fourth floor), the works of artists from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region (fifth floor) and national (sixth floor) in the second half of the 20th century. File:Jožef Tominc - Portret starca II.jpg,

Giuseppe Tominz Giuseppe Tominz, also known as Jožef Tominc (6 July 179024 April 1866), was an Italian-Slovene painter from the Austrian Littoral. He worked mostly in the cultural milieu of the upper bourgeoisie in the Austrian Illyrian Kingdom. He was one of ...

: ''Old Man'' 1840 File:Tominz Autoritratto 1.jpg,

: ''self-portrait'' 1825 File:Tominz G B Bison.jpg,

: ''Giuseppe Bernardino Bison'', 1830 File:Tominz G Holzknecht.jpg,

: ''Giuseppina Holzknecht'' 1832 File:Tominz F Amodeo.jpg,

: ''Filippo Amodeo'' 1832 Notable Italian and European artists whose works are exhibited in the gallery include:

Museum directors

* Augusto Tominz (1872–1883) * Alfredo Tominz (1883–1926) * Piero Sticotti (1927–1929) * Edgardo Sambo (1929–1956) * Giulio Montenero (1960–1989) * Maria Masau Dan (1992)

References

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