MUSEI CIVICI D’ARTE ANTICA
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how to get thereFrom railway or bus station:on foot> from Piazza Medaglie d’Oro follow Via Indipendenza to Piazza Maggiore, turn left into Via Rizzoli, at the Two Towers continue on Strada Maggiore to number 44 | approx. 2 kmby bus> lines 25, 27. Bus stop: first on Strada Maggioreby car> underground parking structure at Piazza VIII Agosto
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Museo Civico d’Arte Industriale e Galleria Davia Bargellini(Davia Bargellini Museum of Industrial Art and Gallery) Strada Maggiore 44 | 40125 Bologna tel. +39 051 [email protected]/arteanticaen
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The Istituzione Bologna Musei | Musei Civici d’Arte Antica is comprised of three separate museums: the Museo Civico Medievale (Palazzo Ghisilardi), the Collezioni Comunali d’Arte (Palazzo Comunale), the Museo Davia Bargellini (Palazzo Davia Bargellini) and the Museo del Tessuto e della Tappezzeria ‘Vittorio Zironi’ (Villa Spada). Palazzo Ghisilardi is home to the organization’s headquar-ters, and it provides the ideal instruments for the promo-tion of the collections which are conserved within. Its facilities include an educational room that provides in-tensive cultural and pedagogical activities, exhibition halls that periodically host temporary ex-hibitions significant to local history. The museum has also a well-equipped restoration stu-dio for the regular restoration of objects belonging to the mu-seums’ collections as well as to other institutions. Inside the building, furthermore, is a well-endowed, research library. It contains more than 19,000 volumes, the majority of which treat themes relevant to art history from the Medieval era to the 19th Century, including a significant section from the Cesare Gnudi Collection. It also features almost 200 titles of specialized magazines pertinent to the history of Medieval and Modern art. A photographic archive that retains millions of images of the three museums’ holdings and an archive that docu-ments the history of the collections from the 19th Century to the present are also located within the Palazzo Ghisilardi.In addition to these conservation and educational initia-tives, the Musei Civici d’Arte Antica support scholarly work that promotes research and the translation of an array of publications including catalogues of the permanent collec-tions, exhibit catalogues and periodicals.
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statuettes and reliefs of Giusep-pe Maria Mazza and Angelo Ga-briello Piò, and the large group of Bolognese Nativity Figures from the 18th and 19th centuries. The preminent core of the mu-seum is the collection of objects of applied art, “curiosities of old Bologna” having various origins which came together to form a singular collection including numerous works in wrought iron, ornamental bronzes, keys, harnesses, handles and appliques for furniture, not to mention significant products of the decorative arts
like glass (from the 16th to the 18th Century), the most important European porcelain manufacturers (Meissen, Ludwigsburg, Frankenthal, Höchst), waxes, including the well-known Portrait of a Prelate by Luigi Dardani, ceramics, stamped leather, embroidery. At the centre of Room VI you can enjoy an elegant four-seat Gala Carriage from the late 1700s, wonderfully painted and gilded.
MUSEO DAVIA BARGELLINI
The buildingIn 1924 under the guidance of Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri, the Bargellini Mu-seum was opened in the 17th Century building of the same name, one of the most significant senatorial structures in Bologna. The building, commissioned in 1638 by Camillo Bargellini from the architect Barto-lomeo Provaglia, was com-pleted in the space of 20
years. The portal in the façade is enriched by two large sculptures of sandstone Atlases that support the central balcony, made in 1658 by Gabriele Brunelli, an artist who worked for many years in the city.Also noteworthy is the majestic staircase with three but-tresses leading to the main floor, decorated with stucco work by Giuseppe Barelli. It was added to the structure at a later time, around 1730, likely involving Carlo Francesco Dotti and Alfonso Torreggiani, the most popular architects in the city at that time. In the 19th Century the building was inher-ited by the Davia family. In 1874, the last member of the family, Giuseppe Davia Bargellini, insti-tuted the charity of the same name, which still owns the build-ing today.
The museumStill today the seven exhibition halls largely reflect the original setup that the designer had giv-en to the two distinct cores that
make up the heritage of the museum: the Davia Bargellini gallery and the collection of applied arts. The intent of Malaguzzi Valeri had been to create the environment of an 18th Century furnished Bolognese apart-ment mixing elegant furnishings and rare items, like the scenic theatre for mari-onettes made in Venice in the 1700s, and the enchanting miniature repro-duction of the inside of an 18th Centu-
ry Emilian private residence, a kind of divertissement of
cabinetry perhaps modelled on the more famous doll houses found in northern Europe, but very rare in Italy.The gallery, with works like the Madonna of Teeth, a panel by
Vitale da Bologna, the Pietà by Simone dei Crocefissi and the
Madonna and Child by Cristoforo da Bologna, introduces the Bologna art scene
that from the beginning of the 1300s and throughout the Century played an extremely important role. The late Gothic culture in Bologna is represented by works like the Saint John the Bastist by Jacopo di Paolo and the Evangelist by Michele di Matteo. Other interesting paintings bear witness to the city’s lively artistic events from the 15th to the 18th Century: significant are the works that illustrate the relationships be-tween fathers and children within the family-run workshops (Prospero and Lavinia Fontana, G iu-s e p p e M a r i a a n d L u i g i Crespi). To the patronage of the noble senatorial Bargellini family liv-ing in the edifice are owed some sig-
nificant portraits of promi-nent members of the house, made by Bartolomeo Pas-serotti in the 1560s, per-haps at the request of Vin-cenzo Maria, elected senator in 1566. A Century later this first series was followed by another with portraits of the fam-ily. And a final third series in the early 1700s was commis-
sioned by Senator Vincenzo, consisting in 14 ovals depicting those who sat in the senatorial throne. In accord-ance with the precise instructions
of the patron, the canvases were placed on the second floor of the building, creat-
ing a “gallery of the ancestors”.
During the same period the Bargellinis c o m m i s s i o n e d
numerous paintings both sacred and secular to the “chaste”
Marcantonio Franceschini. Between 1710 and 1711 the painter delivered the two ovals with Adonis and Venus, and the four canvases depicting Generosity, Charity and Child Bacchus and Cupid lying down.There is an extensive collection of Bolognese sculpture from the 16th to 19th Century reflecting the prolific tradition of terracotta modelling. These include the powerful Bust sof Virgilio Bargellini by Vincenzo Ono-fri, the large polychrome terracotta sculpture with King David made by Angelo Gabriello Piò, the elegant