Collezioni Comunali d'Arte

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Le Collezioni Comunali d'Arte di Bologna sono al secondo piano di Palazzo d'Accursio, il Palazzo Comunale sito in Piazza Maggiore.

Il secondo piano di Palazzo d'Accursio è stato edificato nella seconda metà del XVI secolo per ampliare gli appartamenti dei Cardinal Legati che qui hanno soggiornato fino al 1859 con una sola interruzione fra il 1796 e il 1815. Le Collezioni sono state fondate nel 1936 in locali già di notevolissimo pregio: alcuni degli ambienti sono infatti decorati con pitture dei secoli dal XVI al XIX. L'accesso alle Collezioni è dalla Sala Farnese di Palazzo d'Accursio. Vi hanno trovato sistemazione soprattutto opere acquisite dal Comune in epoca post-unitaria e nei primi decenni del '900, con un nucleo di opere settecentesche originariamente conservate nel Palazzo Comunale e numerose opere pittoriche medievali: il patrimonio conservato va dal Duecento al Novecento del secolo scorso[1]. Il patrimonio delle collezioni è distribuito in sale significative dal punto di vista sia storico che artistico: la Sala Urbana, la Galleria Vidoniana, il braccio Rusconi, la Cappella Farnese e la Sala Boschereccia.


Fonte: Wikipedia

Founded in 1936 in the former winter apartments of the Cardinal Legates in the Town Hall, the Collezioni Comunali d'Arte (Municipal Art Collections) represent the closing stage of a comprehensive reorganisation of the municipal museums, started with Italy's unification by the local administration. The old core of artworks already belonging to the previous town overnments, such as the  "Magistrature", was then widened by adding parts of the collection previously belonging to artist and art collector Pelagio Palagi which was to become the core of the most important municipal museums, together with the properties of the then-dismantled religious orders, and bequests made by collectors, families, private citizens throughout the centuries.
The rooms, which were extensively restored in the Thirties, still keep relevant painted portions (friezes, wood ceilings, and vaults) mostly from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Having kept the 

original layout from the Thirties, today the Collection is laid out as a "furnished museum", where canvasses, furniture, furnishings, not always displayed in a chronological order, mark the sequence of historical rooms opening one into the other: the great "Vidonian" hall, interspersed with paintings and sculptures, recalls the Baroque gallery arrangement; in several rooms of the "Rusconi" ell, furnishings come to the fore, thus evoking 18th-century private mansions. 

Sala Urbana, otherwise known as Sala degli Stemmi (Coats of Arms' Hall)  was built in 1630 by the Apostolic Legate Bernardino Spada, who dedicated it to Pope Urbano VIII. 
The hall, with a rectangular plan, was designed by the architect  Ercole Fichi, the artists Girolamo Curti and Agostino Mitelli and the painter Michele Colonna who decorated the ceiling, creating one of the most important works of the Bologna's Baroque.

The 188 Coats of Arms of Apostolic Legates, deputy Legates and Papal governors represent the history of Bologna and of the Church from 1327 to 1744.
The hall was closed in 2006 because of its state of degradation. The restoration works were carried out from April 2013 to June 2014 within two European projects, fixing the ceiling with modern
frames and installing the new cover of the hall protecting paintings from the sun radiation. The new ventilation system (without use of air-conditioning) and the new low energy consumption lighting system were put on. The painted decorations of the hall were restored as well.

Credits: Bologna Welcome

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