The Museo regionale Agostino Pepoli is an art, archaeology and local history museum in

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. It is one of the most important museums in Sicily. Established in 1906–1908 as the civic museum by count Agostino Pepoli and initially based on the private collection of count Sieri Pepoli and Neapolitan paintings donated by general Giovanbattista Fardella, it is based in a former 14th century

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monastery next to the Basilica-santuario di Maria Santissima Annunziata. In 1921 it acquired count Francesco Hernandez di Erice's collection of cribs, ceramics and archaeological objects In 1925 it became the ''Regio museo'', after the Second World War it became a national museum and finally in 1977 (when responsibility for cultural assets was devolved to the Italian regions) it was again renamed, this time the museum of the Sicilian Region. In the meantime its displays had been redesigned in the 1960s by the architect Franco Minissi, who for his work won the 1969 IN.ARCH., a regional prize. In 2010 it was renamed the ''Museo Interdisciplinare Regionale Agostino Pepoli''. It is also the museum with oversight of the Museo del Satiro danzante in

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, the Tonnara di Favignana in

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and the Salt Museum in

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Sections

It is subdivided into five main sections: * works in marble and stone * paintings * industrial arts * Renaissance sculpture *

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memorabilia

Collection

The museum houses a large collection of paintings, cribs, sculpture and decorative arts, including works by

Antonello Gagini Antonello Gagini (1478–1536) was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance, mainly active in Sicily and Calabria. Antonello belonged to a family of sculptors and artisans, originally from Northern Italy, but active throughout Italy, including Gen ...

and in coral and silver. The paintings include works by

Titian Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. Ti ...

('' Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata'') and

Giacomo Balla Giacomo Balla (18 July 1871 – 1 March 1958) was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings, he depicted light, movement and speed. He was concerned with expressing movement in his works ...

(a portrait of

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), a 15th-century Valencian ''Madonna and Child with Angels'', a 1380 ''Pietà'' by Roberto d'Oderisio and a ''St Andrew'' by the Flemish artist

Geronimo Gerardi Geronimo Gerardi (1595–1648) was a Flemish artist active in Italy. He was born Guilliam Walsgart or Hyeronimus Gerards. Life Born in Antwerp, in his youth he came into contact with Rubens and with Anthony van Dyck. From 1620 onwards he was ac ...

. It also includes the "Tesoro della Madonna", product of several donations to the ''

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''. The collection includes archaeological remains from the province (in 2009 Edipuglia published a catalogue of the Museum's archaeological collections) and historical relics of the

era from Trapani, including a Bourbon-era guillotine and the ensign of the ''Lombardo'', which brought Garibaldi and "The Thousand" to Sicily.

Other works

Exhibitions

*1986 - "L'arte del corallo in Sicilia", curated by Maria Concetta Di Natale *1989 - "Ori e argenti di Sicilia", curated by Maria Concetta Di Natale *2008 - "

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the fina ...

: L'immagine del divino", with 14 works by the artist

Gallery

File:Mappa di Trapani Pavimento in maiolica.jpg, Maiolica flooring showing a historic map of Trapani File:Dodici apostoli di Gerardi.jpg, ''Twelve Apostles'' by Guilliam Walsgart File:Ritratto della regina Maria Cristina.jpg, Portrait of Queen Maria Cristina by

Giuseppe Patania Giuseppe Patania (January 18, 1780 – February 23, 1852) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period. He painted portraits and historical subjects. Biography He was born in Palermo, Sicily. He studied with Giuseppe Velasco and Vince ...

, 1833 File:Presepe corallo trapanese.jpg, 18th century crib made in Trapani File:Ghigliottina borbonica.jpg, Bourbon guillotine, 1800

References

Bibliography

* Vincenzo Scuderi, ''Il Museo Nazionale Pepoli in Trapani'', Roma, 1965 * ''Museo Pepoli, Trapani'', con testi di G. Bresc Bautier, V. Abbate, M.C. Di Natale, et al., Novecento editore, Palermo 1992. * ''Memorie del Risorgimento nelle collezioni del Museo Pepoli'', testi di Maria Luisa Famà, Salvatore Costanza e Gaetano Bongiovanni, Palermo, Regione Siciliana, 2003 *''Il museo A. Pepoli di Trapani. Le collezioni archeologiche'', a cura di Maria Luisa Famà, Edipuglia, 2009 *AA. VV., ''Il Museo Interdisciplinare Regionale Agostino Pepoli'', Trapani 2013 (alcune pagine disponibil
qui
*AA. VV.,

', 2015

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