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The ''Quadreria di Via Marsala'' was inaugurated on 24 November 2016 and displays over 50 works. The eight rooms on the first-floor display works from the 16th through 18th centuries. They include works by Denys Calvaert, Marc Antonio Franceschini, and Bologna Welcome website
The museum includes a map room with maps. The four maps include works originally by Frederick de Wit (''Nova totvs terrarvm orbis tabvula''), engraved in Bologna by Carlo Scotti (engraver), and a view of four continents by
palazzo
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'' in Via Marsala #7, Bologna
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, Italy.
It was once home of the ''Opera Pia dei Poveri Vergognosi'' or ''Charity home for the Shameful Poor'', but now houses a Quadreria or painting gallery gathered by "ASP Città di Bologna", which derived from the joining of various charities.
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The ''Quadreria di Via Marsala'' was inaugurated on 24 November 2016 and displays over 50 works. The eight rooms on the first-floor display works from the 16th through 18th centuries. They include works by Denys Calvaert, Marc Antonio Franceschini, and Bartolomeo Ramenghi
Bartolomeo Ramenghi (1484–1542), also called ''Bagnacavallo'', ''il Bagnacavallo'' or ''il Baruffaldi'', was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active in Emilia-Romagna.
He received the nickname, Bagnacavallo, from the village Bagnacavallo ...
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The ''Stanza del Gandolfi'', has seven canvases depicting saints by Ubaldo Gandolfi
Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728–1781) was an Italian painter, draughtsman and sculptor of the late-Baroque period, mainly active in and near Bologna. He is known for his biblical, mythological and allegorical subjects as well as his portraits and nudes. ...
, commissioned between 1768 and 1776 by the Marchese Gregorio Filippo Maria Casali Bentivoglio Paleotti, and donated to the Confraternita del Baraccano.The museum includes a map room with maps. The four maps include works originally by Frederick de Wit (''Nova totvs terrarvm orbis tabvula''), engraved in Bologna by Carlo Scotti (engraver), and a view of four continents by
Willem Janszoon Blaeu
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (; 157121 October 1638), also abbreviated to Willem Jansz. Blaeu, was a Dutch cartographer, atlas maker, and publisher. Along with his son Johannes Blaeu, Willem is considered one of the notable figures of the Netherlan ...
(Nova et acvrata Totivs ...Tabvula'' with ''Europea, Asiae, Africae and Americae'', engraved by Pietro Todeschi. Both were printed by Giuseppe Longhi. ''
On display is also a '' Foundling Wheel'' used to deposit abandoned children.
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