The National Museum Agostino Pepoli
The Agostino Pepoli National Museum is located in Trapani (TP) in Via Conte A. Pepoli n. 200.
It was built between 1906 and 1908, by order of Count Agostino Sieri Pepoli, inside the ancient fourteenth-century convent of the Carmelites, adjacent to the basilica of the sanctuary of Maria SS. Annunziata.
The installation was made in the 60s by the architect Franco Minissi .
The museum, interdisciplinary , is now divided into five main sections:
* marbles and tombstones;
* paintings;
* industrial arts;
* Renaissance sculpture;
* memories of the Risorgimento.
The works preserved tell the artistic and cultural history of Trapani and its territory from antiquity to the nineteenth century.
Count Pepoli donated to the city his rich collection of works of art, to which were later integrated some paintings of the Neapolitan school donated by General Giambattista Fardella .
In 1921 , was also acquired the collection of Count Francesco Hernandez of Erice , which included cribs, ceramics and archaeological finds.
Today you can visit the museum and view works by the sculptor and architect Antonello Gagini or Gaggini , works in coral, silver, crib sculptures and a rich art gallery that includes : paintings by the painter Tiziano Vecellio (Stimmate of San Francesco); by the artist Giacomo Balla (a portrait of Nunzio Nasi); a Madonna with child and the angels of the fifteenth century. Valencian school ; a 1380 Pietà by Roberto d'Oderisio and a S. Andrea by the Flemish Geronimo Gerardi. Inside the museum is also kept the "Treasure of the Madonna", the result of numerous donations to Our Lady of Trapani.
In the nucleus dedicated to the Risorgimento , you can see some historical relics of the city of Trapani, of the Risorgimento and Garibaldi era , testimony of the participation of the province in the Unification of Italy.
They are an example : the flag of the steamer "The Lombard"; three marble busts of Giuseppe Garibaldi, Vittorio Emanuele II and the Count of Cavour (by the sculptor Vincenzo Vela ) and a guillotine of the Bourbon era.
Contacts and infos
Via Conte Agostino Pepoli, 180 Trapani Trapani 91100
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