The Pinacoteca Civica Padre Pietro Tacchi Venturi is the civic

art gallery An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...

of the town of

San Severino Marche San Severino Marche is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about southwest of Ancona and about southwest of Macerata. History From prehistory to Roman age The oldest remains of human pre ...

, region of

Marche Marche ( , ) is one of the twenty regions of Italy. In English, the region is sometimes referred to as The Marches ( ). The region is located in the central area of the country, bordered by Emilia-Romagna and the republic of San Marino to the ...

, Italy. Located at Via Salimbeni 39, it mainly displays sacred paintings from prior centuries.

Structure

The art gallery and museum was constituted in 1974 to house collections of works from former local churches and monasteries. Among its collections are works by the brothers Lorenzo (''Mystical Marriage of St Catherine'') and

Jacopo Salimbeni Lorenzo Salimbeni (San Severino Marche 1374-c1418) and Jacopo Salimbeni (c.1370/80-after 1426) were Italian painters. They were brothers whose work spanned both a relatively narrow geographical area and time period, from the triptych painting o ...

Paolo Veneziano Paolo Veneziano, also Veneziano Paolo or Paolo da Venezia (active by 1333, died after 1358) was a 14th-century painter from Venice, the "founder of the Venetian School" of painting, probably active between about 1321 and 1362.

Allegretto Nuzi Allegretto Nuzi or ''Allegretto di Nuzio'' (1315–1373) was an Italian painter, active in a Gothic style mainly around Fabriano, in the Province of Ancona. Biography Nuzi was probably trained in Fabriano Fabriano is a town and '' comune'' of A ...

(''Madonna dell'Umiltà''),

Lorenzo d'Alessandro Lorenzo d’Alessandro (c. 1455 – 1503) was an Italian painter and interpreter of late gothic style. He is known by different authorities and authors by different names, including: *Lorenzo da San Severino or Sanseverino *Lorenzo d’Alessan ...

(''Pietà'');

Vittore Crivelli Vittorio (or Vittore) Crivelli was an Italian painter, brother of Carlo Crivelli. Born ca. 1440 in Venice, dead in Venice 1501 or 1502. His works are similar in style to his brother's, but less accomplished. There are examples of his work in the ...

(a polyptych depicting the ''Madonna and Saints''), and

Pinturicchio Pinturicchio, or Pintoricchio (, ; born Bernardino di Betto; 1454–1513), also known as Benetto di Biagio or Sordicchio, was an Italian painter during the Renaissance. He acquired his nickname (meaning "little painter") because of his smal ...

( ''Madonna della Pace''); two canvases by Pomarancio; fresco fragments by followers of

Giotto Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto ( , ) and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/Proto-Renaissance period. Giot ...

; a ''Martyrdom of St Bartholemew'' by a 17th-century Lombard painter; a number of wooden engravings in globes; and wooden choir stalls (1513), including ones by the studio of Domenico Indivini.Italian Touring Club
entry.

References

Gallery

Image:Lorenzo_salimbeni,_Matrimonio_mistico_di_Santa_Caterina,_1400,_01.jpg, Mystical Marriage of St Catherine by

Lorenzo Salimbeni Lorenzo Salimbeni (San Severino Marche 1374-c1418) and Jacopo Salimbeni (c.1370/80-after 1426) were Italian painters. They were brothers whose work spanned both a relatively narrow geographical area and time period, from the triptych painting o ...

and

Image:Allegretto nuzi, madonna dell'umiltà, 1365, 01.jpg, Madonna dell'Umiltà by

Image:Pinturicchio,_madonna_della_pace,_1490_ca.,_dal_vecchio_duomo,_01.jpg, Madonna della Pace by

Image:L'alunno,_polittico_di_san_severino,_1468,_01.jpg, San Severino Polyptych by

Niccolò Alunno Niccolò di Liberatore, known as L'Alunno (also Niccolò di Liberatore and Niccolò da Foligno; the name is sometimes spelled Nicolò) (1430–1502) was an Italian painter of the Umbrian school. Life and career He was born at Foligno, the son ...

Image:Paolo_e_giovannino_veneziano,_polittico_da_s.m._del_mercato_a_s._severino,_01.jpg, San Severino Polyptych by Paolo e Giovannino Veneziano Image:Vittore_crivelli,_polittico_di_san_severino,_1482_ca._da_s.m._delle_grazie,_01.jpg, San Severino Polyptych by

External links

Pinacoteca civica P. Tacchi Venturi, official website
Buildings and structures in San Severino Marche Museums in Marche Art museums and galleries in Marche {{italy-struct-stub