Galleria Estense
 Palace of Musei | |
| Established | 1884 |
|---|---|
| Location |
Largo Porta Sant'Agostino, 337 41121 Modena, Italy |
| Coordinates | 44°38′55″N 10°55′18″E / 44.6485°N 10.9216°E |
| Type | Art museum, Historic site |
| Website | Official website |
Nativity with the Two Midwives by Pellegrino Aretusi, ca. 1500.
The Galleria Estense or Estense Gallery is an art museum in Modena, with mainly Italian paintings from the 14th to the 18th century, formed around the collection of the House of Este, rulers of Modena (1288–1796). It is located on the upper floor of the Palazzo dei Musei, on the St. Augustine square, a building from the late 18th century. It was opened in 1884.
Collection
Madonna Campori by Correggio
- Sculptures by Niccolo dell'Arca
- Nativity with the Two Midwives by Pellegrino Aretusi
- Tancredi baptizes Clorinda by Sisto Badalocchio
- Bust of Francesco I d'Este by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Crucifixion and The Annunciation by Francesco Bianchi
- Pieta with symbols of the Passion by Bartolomeo Bonascia
- Madonna with Child by Sandro Botticelli
- Madonna and Child known as the Madonna Campori by Correggio
- The Nativity by Battista Dossi
- The Jester, Madonna and Child with St. George and St. Michael, Ercole d'Este and others by Dosso Dossi
- Modena Triptych by El Greco
- Hercules on horseback, sculpture by Bertoldo di Giovanni
- Martyrdom of St. Peter and Venus, Cupid and Mars by Guercino
- Holy Family and Portrait of the poet Fulvio Testi by Ludovico Lana
- Portrait of Henri II of France by Corneille de Lyon
- Martyrdom of St. Catherine by Lelio Orsi
- Madonna and Child by Domenico Panetti
- Bronze sculptures by Andrea Riccio
- Lucretia, Brutus and Collatinus by Gianfrancesco Maineri
- Veduta di una Baia and Erminia carving Tancred's name by Salvator Rosa
- The Contest of Apollo and Marsyas by Tintoretto
- St. Anthony of Padua by Cosimo Tura
- Portrait of Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena by Diego Velázquez
- Works by Carlo Bononi, Francesco Botticini, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Charles le Brun, Cima da Conegliano, Jan Gossaert, Tommaso da Modena, Guido Reni, Lionello Spada, Joos van Cleve, Palma Vecchio and Veronese
- A collection of ceiling paintings from Este palaces and elsewhere, with works by Ludovico Carracci (a Flora), Tintoretto (Scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses) and Nicolo dell'Abate.
- A Camera delle Meraviglie, with exotic and unusual objects
Further reading
- The Estense Gallery of Modena: a guide to the history and the art collections by Maria Grazia Bernardini, Silvana 2007.
References
External links
Media related to Galleria Estense at Wikimedia Commons
Coordinates: 44°38′55″N 10°55′18″E / 44.6485°N 10.9216°E
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