Museo Civico di Belluno

The Museum comprehensively illustrates the pictorial art of Belluno from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. By Jacopo da Montagnana (1440? -1499) And Pomponio Amalteo (1505-1588) are numerous fragments of frescoes that once decorated the Caminata, seat of the Community of Belluno entirely rebuilt and adapted in Provincial Court between 1838 and 1840 . some works by Matteo Cesa (1425-1495), of Bartolomeo Montagna also on display (1450 -1523), Palma the Younger (1544-1628) and Domenico Tintoretto (1560-1635). Of great value are the eighteenth century paintings by Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734), painted Fulcis home, representing the Fall of Phaeton, Hercules and Omphale, Hercules at the Crossroads; paintings and graphic works by Marco Ricci, paintings by Gaspare and Antonio Diziani, Antonio Lazzarini and Giuseppe Zais. The painter and patriot Belluno Ippolito Caffi (1809-1866), among the greatest Italian painters of the nineteenth century, there is the Venice of the canvas with snow and the Belluno view known by the Monte Dolada.

They belong to the collections of the Museum also some sculptures; among these particularly valuable ones of the Andrea Brustolon wooden Michelangelo (1662-1732), such as the crucifix or the frame with putti. By the same artist they are also preserved some terracotta models and a body of preparatory drawings. Of great interest Finally some collected only partially exposed in the halls, votive tablets of age between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Zambelli-Perale porcelain collection produced by Italian manufacturers and the European sec. The eighteenth to the nineteenth, the Prosdocimi-cocoons collection of goldsmith jewelry Belluno between '800 and' 900.

The archaeological section preserves the Iron Age testimonies, constituted largely by findings coming from the nineteenth-century excavations of a necropolis near Cavarzano (fibulas, knives and bronze objects) and by subsequent excavations carried out in neighboring areas. There are also numerous Roman finds and the High Middle Ages: to indicate the two tombs of the Lombard period, unearthed at Mel and in Sospirolo respectively. The Roman Lapidary is housed in the entrance hall of the nearby Municipal Auditorium: to report the Cansiglio calcareous stone base from the early third century A.D. dedicated to Marco Carmine Pudens, who held important administrative functions including also the patron of the collegium of dendrophori (Steelworkers and timber disposal) and fabri, and the funerary stele of the second century AD, Tito Sertorio Proculo who had numerous political and religious duties in the municipium. Deserves a memory, also the sarcophagus of Flavio Hostilius and his wife Domitia third century A.D., visited in Crepadona Palace courtyard, home to the city's cultural center.

To the picture gallery of the Museum has been transferred to Fulcis palace, a prestigious eighteenth century building the halls of which were created by Sebastiano Ricci masterpieces preserved in the Museum today.