| Bari Museums and Monuments |
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 Bari's Provincial Art Gallery was founded quite recently. Actually, it was officially established in 1928, as the paintings formerly preserved in the old gallery attached to the Provincial Museum, where they had been brought after the closing of monasteries during the second half of the 19th century, along with other paintings handed over on consignment by Apulian churches and monasteries or borrowed from National Galleries in Neaples and Rome were put together. At that time, the Provincial Art Gallery was located in some rooms of the San Domenico monastery, a building that is now seat of the prefecture. Here the collection remained until 1936, when it was moved to the new offices of the Province, a building designed by engineer Luigi Baffa. In the meanwhile, the collection had grown richer, thanks to donations made by Riccardo Ferrara, Damaso Bianchi, Enrico Castellaneta and some successful purchase.
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| Despite its moving to the new seat, which is spacious and decorous, the Art Gallery remained apart from the city's cultural life: bit by bit, this detachedness led to its decay, which reached a state of fairly complete negleet during the fifties. The revival of the Gallery and its rearrangement, which is still in progress, can be dated to the late sixties, when all the paintings on loan from National Galleries, lacking whatever small relation with the Apulian art history, were courageously returned; it was decided to compensate these losses with other more pertaining loans, which have given the collection more typically regional features. |
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 As it appears today, the Art Gallery offers a broad documentation of Apulian art, or related to Apulia, ranging from the 11th to the 19th century. The material on display includes a section on the Middle Ages (11th to 14th century sculptures), Apulian icons from the 12th to the 14th century; Venetian paintings from churches throughout the region (Vivarini, Bellini, Bordon, Veronese, Tintoretto); 15th and 16th century Apulian paintings and Neapolitan or Neapolitan school paintings of the 17th and 18th century (with works by the Maestro dell'Annuncio ai Pastori, Stanzione, Finoglio, Vaccaro, Giordano, Bonito, De Mura, De Caro); a precious group of paintings by Giaquinto, a collection of 19th century paintings (De Nittis, Netti, Morelli, Boldini, Patini); Apulian 17th and 18th century ceramics, Neapolitan crèches. Since March '87 the Gallery has been enriched by the Grieco donation (fifty important 19th and early 20th century paintings). In recent years the purchase of contemporary art works has been fostered and a special section will soon be arranged. | |
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