Civic Museum - Fulcis Palace

Features

Open to the public since 1876, it houses an important archaeological collection along with paintings and sculptures from Bartolomeo Montagna to Ippolito Caffi. The Museum comprehensively illustrates Belluno's pictorial art from the 15th to the 20th century. Numerous fragments of frescoes by Jacopo da Montagnana (1440?-1499) and Pomponio Amalteo (1505-1588) once decorated the Caminata, the site of the ancient Community of Belluno, which was entirely reconstructed and adapted as a provincial courthouse between 1838 and 1840. There are also some works by Matteo Cesa (1425-1495), Bartolomeo Montagna (1450-1523), Palma il Giovane (1544-1628), and Domenico Tintoretto (1560-1635). The 18th-century canvases by Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734), painted for the Fulcis house, depicting the Fall of Phaethon, Hercules and Omphale, Hercules at the Crossroads, along with paintings and graphics by Marco Ricci, and works by Gaspare and Antonio Diziani, Antonio Lazzarini, and Giuseppe Zais, are of great value. Among the works of the Belluno painter and patriot Ippolito Caffi (1809-1866), one of the leading view painters of 19th century Italy, are the canvas Venice with Snow and the famous view of Belluno with Monte Dolada. The Museum's collections also include some sculptures; among these, particularly valuable are those by the wood Michelangelo Andrea Brustolon (1662-1732), such as the Crucifix and the frame with putti. Some terracotta sketches and a corpus of preparatory drawings by the same artist are also preserved. Of great interest are also some collections only partially exhibited in the rooms, the votive tablets from between the 18th and 19th centuries, the Zambelli-Perale collection of porcelain produced by Italian and European manufacturers from the 18th to the 19th century, and the Prosdocimi-Bozzoli collection of jewelry from Belluno goldsmiths between the 19th and 20th centuries. The archaeological section preserves evidence from the Iron Age, largely consisting of finds from the 19th-century excavation of a necropolis near Cavarzano (fibulae, knives, and bronze objects) and from subsequent excavations in nearby areas. There are also numerous finds from the Roman era and the Early Middle Ages: noteworthy are the two burial sets from the Lombard period, found respectively in Mel and Sospirolo. The Roman lapidary is located in the entrance hall of the nearby Municipal Auditorium: notable is the limestone base from Cansiglio dating from the early 3rd century A.D., dedicated to Marco Carminio Pudente, who held important administrative roles including that of patron of the collegium of dendrophori (responsible for the processing and sale of timber) and fabri, and the funerary stele from the 2nd century A.D., of Tito Sertorio Proculo, who held numerous political and religious positions in the municipium. Also worth mentioning is the sarcophagus of Flavio Ostilio and his wife Domitia from the 3rd century A.D., visitable in the courtyard of Palazzo Crepadona, home to the city cultural center. The painting gallery of the Museum is displayed in the newly renovated spaces of Palazzo Fulcis, a prestigious 18th-century building for which the masterpieces preserved today in the Museum were created by Sebastiano Ricci.

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