The Pinacoteca Giovanni Morscio is an Italian
museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...
, located in
Dolceacqua
Dolceacqua ( lij, Dôsaiga, locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about southwest of Genoa and about west of Imperia, on the border with France. As of 31 December 2014, it had ...
. The Pinacoteca is located in the
Palazzo Luigina Garoscio.
History
The museum was founded in 1970, thanks to a donation by the local painter Giovanni Morscio of paintings of him and other Italian and French painters of his time.
Morscio (1887-1972) was mainly devoted to
still life and
frescos
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; he was active in
Liguria
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and
Nice
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, and he exhibited at the ''
Salon des Indépendants
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Common meanings
* Beauty salon, a venue for cosmetic treatments
* French term for a drawing room, an architectural space in a home
* Salon (gathering), a meeting for learning or enjoyment
Arts and entertainment
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'' in 1930 and practiced in France also as a
gallery owner
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.
The collection was enlarged by the municipal administration in the eighties. After an initial location in the former
town hall, the museum was transferred to the Palazzo Luigina Garoscio.
Collection
The original collection is focused on a selection of works by Morscio
and some Italian and French painters of his time:
Eloi Noël Bouvard, Mario Ameglio,
Eugenio Bonivento, Cyrano Castelfranchi, Georges Chappuis,
Gaston Cirmeuse, Yves Diey, Robert Duflos, Charley Garry, Maurice Martin,
Maurice Louis Monnot, Fernando Pelosini,
Alberto Rossi,
André Salomon Le Tropezien.
After Morscio's death collection has been enlarged with paintings by Achille Cabiati, Marcello Cammi, Franco Giglio and Mario Raimondo.
References
External links
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Museums in Liguria
Art museums and galleries in Liguria
Local museums in Italy