The Pinacoteca Claudio Ridolfi 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 long ...
of the town of
Corinaldo, province of Ancona, region of
Marche
Marche ( ; ), in English sometimes referred to as the Marches ( ) from the Italian name of the region (Le Marche), is one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. The region is located in the Central Italy, central area of the country, ...
, Italy. Located in the former-convent of the Augustinian ''padri eremitani'', it mainly displays sacred paintings from prior centuries.
Structure
The art gallery and museum were opened in 1996 with a restoration in 2012. Most of the artworks, both paintings and sculptural come from suppressed religious institutions including the former Chiesa dall'Addolorata, Santi Lorenzo e Ippolito, Santa Maria di Piazza, San Rocco, and San Pietro Apostolo. It includes works by
Ercole Ramazzani,
Gaspare Gasparini,
Claudio Ridolfi,
Domenico Peruzzini, and
Giuseppe Marchesi. The galleries also include contemporary works including a large collection of works by
Nori de’ Nobili (1902-1968), who also now has a museum since 2012 in
Trecastelli
Trecastelli is an Italian ''comune'' in the province of Ancona, in Marche, created in 2014 from the merger of the comuni of Ripe, Castel Colonna and Monterado. These three towns are now ''frazioni'' of the administration. The municipal seat is ...
.
Comune tourism site
References
Buildings and structures in the Province of Ancona
Museums in Marche
Art museums and galleries in Marche
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