Establishing the national identity of a region through its art
The Girolamo and Rosaria Devanna National Gallery of Puglia defines regional identity in a vibrant way, while at the same time traversing national borders and reaching beyond the Alps thanks to the varied provenance of the collections.
Notices(3)
- SPECIAL EVENING OPENING – JUNE 21 & 28
Please note that on June 21 and June 28, the Galleria Nazionale della Puglia "Girolamo e Rosaria Devanna" will be open from 8:30 AM to 11:15 PM (last ticket entry at 10:30 PM).
- Respect of the chosen entry time
We remind visitors that it is mandatory to show up at the site’s entrance exactly at the time chosen during the purchase.
- free admission
The first Sunday of each month access to all institutes and places of culture is free, including, in the absence of a separate exhibition itinerary or of a separate ticket, the spaces in which exhibitions or temporary exhibitions are held. Admission will also be free on the following days: 25th April; 2nd June; 4th November.
Services(5)
- Audioguide
- Disabled access
- Guided Tours
- Info Point
- Pets allowed with carrier
Reductions(4)
For REDUCED and FREE tickets, proof of the right to use these tickets will have to be shown. Where the visitor fails to produce such documentation at the ticket office, a FULL-PRICE ticket will have to be purchased.
Free
13types- •European Union tourist guides in the exercise of their professional activity, presenting a valid licence issued by the competent authority
- •Tour interpreters from the European Union working alongside the guide, upon presentation of a valid licence issued by the competent authority
- •To the staff of the Ministry of Culture
- •Members of I.C.O.M. (International Council of Museums)
- •To public and private school groups of the European Union alongside their teachers, subjected to booking and in the quota established by the head of the institution or cultural site.
- •Lecturers and students on degree courses, specialist degree courses or post-graduate specialisation and PhD courses in the following faculties: architecture, conservation of cultural heritage, education sciences or literature and philosophy with an archaeological or historical-artistic focus. The same benefits are due to teachers and students of corresponding universities or courses, present in the European Union States.
- •Teachers and students enrolled in Fine Arts Academies or corresponding institutes of the European Union, by showing their enrolment certificate for the current academic year
- •Teaching staff -permanent school or with a fixed-term contract- of the Italian school, upon presentation of a suitable certificate issued by the educational institutions. The certificate is annual and valid for the academic year in progress.
- •Disabled persons and one family member or companion who can show their membership to health and care services.
- •To the operators of voluntary associations who carry out, on the basis of existing agreements with the Ministry, activities to promote knowledge of cultural heritage.
- •Visitors under the age of eighteen. Under-twelves must be accompanied by an adult
- •Italian and foreign scholars for study or research purposes certified by Italian or foreign school or university institutions, academies, research and culture institutes as well as by the Ministry, for particular and justified needs, the Directors can allow individual subjects who request it free admission for specific periods.
- •Free entry to state cultural sites is permitted to teachers and students of AFAM (Higher Education in Art and Music) schools, upon presentation of the appropriate forms.
Reduced
2types- •EU citizens aged between 18 and 25 (the age limit is considered exceeded from the day following the completion of the 25th year of age).
- •To citizens of countries outside the European Union, on condition of reciprocity.
Puglia Musei Card
1Type- •The subscription is NAME-SPECIFIC. It allows unlimited admissions for 6 months in all the museums of the Regional Directorate of Museums of Puglia. The Taranto National Archaeological Museum (MArTA) is NOT included.
Museo Card
1Type- •The subscription is NAME-SPECIFIC. It allows unlimited entry for 6 months in ONE of the museums of the Regional Directorate of Museums of Puglia. Taranto National Archaeological Museum (MArTA) is NOT included.
Description
A monumental building as the site for the new museum
The official site of the Gallery is Palazzo Sylos Calò. Built in the 16th century, the building blends elements of late medieval architecture with a Renaissance lexicon (found in the classically-influenced architecture), the result of civil construction at the time. Its loggia forms the extraordinary scenic backdrop to Piazza Cavour, becoming in the 19th century the point of union between the old town and the new suburb. In 1902, it was included in the List of Monumental Buildings of Italy by the then Ministry of Education.
An eccentric cultural offering
With the strength of its national identity, the Gallery's collection does not disdain works by foreign artists, offering the public a comprehensive and stimulating view of artistic production between the 16th and 20th centuries. Spread over five rooms and consisting of 350 works, the collection serves as a starting point for research and study of the works on display, as well as for an in-depth study of art history. The itinerary is intended to reflect the spirit of a private collection that is at the heart of the exhibition, bringing out the common denominator that led the original collectors to buy, sell and select the works, and creating new points of discussion to entice the public to return to the rooms.
Sixteenth-century forms and colours
Symbols of the 16th century include the works of Giovan Filippo Criscuolo (Death and Assumption of the Madonna), as well as the splendid painting attributed to the circle of Titian Vecellio (Portrait of a Gentleman) representing Venetian painting. There is an interesting group of paintings of late Byzantine culture attributable to the Cretan area.
The Golden Ages of Baroque Painting: 17th and 18th Centuries
Representing this flourishing artistic period are Artemisia Gentileschi, Luca Giordano (Annunciation) and Nicolas Poussin (Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, Nymph and Drinking Satyr). Apulian figurative painters are represented by Francesco Antonio Altobello (Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) for the 17th century, while the 18th-century is represented by Francesco de Mura (St Paul Apostle, St Vincent Ferrer) for the Neapolitan school, while the opening towards Europe is provided by the works of Tiepolo, Melendez and Hamilton.
Historical and artistic revolutions
Nineteenth-century art was rooted in the changes brought about by the French Revolution, marking the birth of an eclectic art without rigid schematics and marked by a personal quest for the self and the other. The works in the collection are mainly Italian, with the likes of Eugéne Delacroix (Scene of a Shipwreck), Giuseppe de Nittis (Trafalgar Square), Federico Rossano (Campagna, Landscape) and Gioacchino Toma (Ophelia).
Window on the contemporary
The works in the Contemporary section are divided between 19th and 20th century artists on the one hand, and works of the international avant-garde on the other. The art of the two centuries includes Giulio Aristide Sartorio (Female figures in front of a church) and Damaso Bianchi (Portrait of the caricaturist and satirical cartoonist Menotti Bianchi, nicknamed Friar Menotti). In the contemporary sphere, works by Joseph Stella (St. John the Baptist), Beatrice Wood (Portrait of a Woman, Situation), Man Ray (Study of a Female Figure), Gaetano Peviati (Women at the Sepulchre) are of considerable interest.
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