The Museo Nazionale d'Abruzzo is hosted in the Forte Spagnolo of

L'Aquila L'Aquila ( ; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' in central Italy. It is the capital city of the Province of L'Aquila and the Abruzzo region in Italy. , it has a population of 69,902. Laid out within medieval walls on a hill in the wide valley of the A ...

. The Museum is on three floors: on the ground floor, there is the giant skeleton of an Archidiskon meridionalis (improperly called

mammoth A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus ''Mammuthus.'' They lived from the late Miocene epoch (from around 6.2 million years ago) into the Holocene until about 4,000 years ago, with mammoth species at various times inhabi ...

, a prehistoric "elephant") found a few miles from Aquila in 1954, and an archeological section with pieces of the Italic pre-Roman period, a section with inscriptions and pieces from the Roman towns in

Abruzzo Abruzzo (, ; ; , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; ), historically also known as Abruzzi, is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.3 million. It is divided into four ...

, among them a fine Roman calendar from

Amiternum Amiternum was an ancient Sabine city, then Roman city and later bishopric and Latin Catholic titular see in the central Abruzzo region of modern Italy, located from L'Aquila. Amiternum was the birthplace of the historian Sallust (86 BC). Histo ...

(25 AD). On the first floor the medieval and modern art section, with works of Abruzzese artists of the centuries 13-17th such as: the polyptych by Jacobello del Fiore; a Processional Cross by

Nicola da Guardiagrele Nicola da Guardiagrele (born Nicola Gallucci or Nicola di Andrea di Pasquale; c. 1385/1390Page aAbruzzo region official website – c. 1462) was an Italian late medieval goldsmith, painter and etcher. Biography Born at Guardiagrele, in what is ...

, a group of wooden and terracotta sculptures such as a ''St Sebastian'' by Silvestro dell'Aquila and another by Saturnino Gatti; paintings by Flemish and Roman and Neapolitan artists such as

Sebastiano Conca Sebastiano Conca (8 January 1680 – 1 September 1764) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 1706, along with his brother Giovanni, wh ...

, Giulio Cesare Bedeschini,

Francesco Solimena Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian Baroque painter, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. Biography Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of Avellino. H ...

, Francesco de Mura; finally the contemporary art section with such artists as M. Vaccari,

Renato Guttuso Aldo Renato Guttuso (26 December 1911 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian painter and politician. He is considered to be among the most important Italian artists of the 20th century and is among the key figures of Italian expressionism. His art i ...

Virgilio Guidi Virgilio Guidi (April 4, 1891 – January 7, 1984) was an Italian artist and writer. He was born in Rome into an artistic family. His father was a sculptor.Cowling & Mundy 1990, p. 124. Guidi received his early training at the Scuola Libera ...

, Giuseppe Capogrossi,

Orfeo Tamburi Orfeo Tamburi (1910–1994) was an Italians, Italian painter and scenic designer. Biography He was born in Jesi, and graduated from the local Istituto Tecnico in 1926. He was awarded in 1928 a stipend to study in Rome, at the Accademia di Belle ...

, and

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 ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Museo Nazionale D'abruzzo Art museums and galleries in Abruzzo Buildings and structures in L'Aquila National museums of Italy