Revoltella Museum
Encyclopedia
The Revoltella Museum is a modern art gallery founded in Trieste
in 1872 by Baron Pasquale Revoltella. The baron, after he left his house to the city (located in Piazza Venezia) and all the works, furniture and books it contained.
. To expand the original collection, in 1907 the City acquired the Brunner Building located nearby. This building was completely used only since 1963, following the restructuring of Carlo Scarpa
.
The museum today is composed of three buildings, with main entrance from Via Diaz, for an exhibition area of 4,000 square meters.
The works on display today are about 350 paintings and sculptures. The Brunner palace host works of Italian authors of the second half of the nineteenth century (third floor), the works acquired in the early decades of the twentieth century (fourth floor), the works of artists of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (fifth floor) and national (sixth ) in the second half of the twentieth century.
The notable Italian and European artists whose works are exhibited in the gallery include :
Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...
in 1872 by Baron Pasquale Revoltella. The baron, after he left his house to the city (located in Piazza Venezia) and all the works, furniture and books it contained.
The building
The main building was built in 1858 designed by Friedrich HitzigFriedrich Hitzig
Georg Friedrich Heinrich Hitzig was a German architect, born into the Jewish Itzig family, converted to Lutheranism. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel....
. To expand the original collection, in 1907 the City acquired the Brunner Building located nearby. This building was completely used only since 1963, following the restructuring of Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa , was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape, and the history of Venetian culture, and Japan. Scarpa was also a glass and furniture designer of note....
.
The museum today is composed of three buildings, with main entrance from Via Diaz, for an exhibition area of 4,000 square meters.
The exhibits
In addition to the works of Baron, the City acquired several other works, paid for by donations that the same Revoltella had done to the city.The works on display today are about 350 paintings and sculptures. The Brunner palace host works of Italian authors of the second half of the nineteenth century (third floor), the works acquired in the early decades of the twentieth century (fourth floor), the works of artists of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (fifth floor) and national (sixth ) in the second half of the twentieth century.
The notable Italian and European artists whose works are exhibited in the gallery include :
- Giovanni FattoriGiovanni FattoriGiovanni Fattori was an Italian artist, one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli. He was initially a painter of historical themes and military subjects. In his middle years, inspired by the Barbizon school, he became one of the leading Italian plein-airists, painting landscapes,...
- Domenico IndunoDomenico IndunoDomenico Induno was an Italian painter, originally a goldsmith.He was born and died in Milan, and studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, as well as under Luigi Sabatelli and at Rome. He tried successively the Neoclassicism and Romantic schools, but afterwards settled down to depict popular...
- Giuseppe De NittisGiuseppe De NittisGiuseppe De Nittis was an Italian painter whose work merges the styles of Salon art and Impressionism.De Nittis was born in Barletta, where he first studied under Giovanni Battista Calò...
- Ignacio ZuloagaIgnacio ZuloagaIgnacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta was a Basque Spanish painter, born in Eibar, near the monastery of Loyola. He was the son of metalworker and damascener Plácido Zuloaga and grandson of the organizer and director of the royal armoury in Madrid.-Biography:In his youth, he drew and worked in his father's...
- Eduardo DalbonoEduardo DalbonoEduardo Dalbono was an Italian painter.-Biography:The son of a writer and art critic father and poet mother, Edoardo Dalbono attended the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti in Naples in 1853, but left it shortly afterwards to join Nicola Palizzi’s studio...
- Mario SironiMario SironiMario Sironi was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms.-Biography:...
- Carlo CarràCarlo CarràCarlo Carrà was an Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art. He taught for many years in the city of Milan.-Biography:Carrà was born in...
- Giorgio De ChiricoGiorgio de ChiricoGiorgio de Chirico was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement...
- Giuseppe Tominz
- Lucio FontanaLucio FontanaLucio Fontana was an Italian painter, sculptor and theorist of Argentine birth. He was mostly known as the founder of Spatialism and his ties to Arte Povera.-Early life:...
- Manlio RhoManlio RhoManlio Rho was a painter born in Como, Italy. He is considered one of the most important abstract artists in Italy.-Life and work:...
- Mario Deluigi
- Arnaldo PomodoroArnaldo PomodoroArnaldo Pomodoro is an Italian sculptor. He was born on 23 June 1926, in Morciano, Romagna, Italy. He currently lives and works in Milan. His brother, Giò Pomodoro was also a sculptor....
- Giacomo ManzùGiacomo ManzùGiacomo Manzù, pseudonym of Giacomo Manzoni , was an Italian sculptor, communist, and Roman Catholic.-Biography:...
- Francesco HayezFrancesco HayezFrancesco Hayez was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.-Biography:...
Directors of the Museum
- Augusto Tominz (1872–1883)
- Alfredo Tominz (1883–1926)
- Piero Sticotti (1927–1929)
- Edgardo Sambo (1929–1956)
- Giulio Montero (1960–1989)
- Maria Masau Dan (1992)