Completely renovated new Roi Wing of Vicenza's Palazzo Chiericati opens to the public

In Vicenza, the new Roi Wing of Palazzo Chiericati, named after Vicenza’s marquis and great patron Giuseppe Roi, opens to the public. From December 21, visitors will therefore be able to visit the eleven newly restored and completely renovated rooms that house more than 300 works, some of which have never been exhibited before. As a preview, they will be exceptionally open with free admission on Friday, December 20 from 6:30 to 11 p.m. (last admission at 10:30 p.m.). Completely renovated, the Roi Wing displays works from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, fundamental centuries in the history and artistic production of the area. Among the masterpieces on display are the altarpieces by Tiepolo and Piazzetta from the Vicenza church of Araceli and the corpus of terracotta sketches from the workshop of Orazio Marinali.

Particular attention was devoted to the textile and silk production tradition, evidenced among other works by the Marasca Collection. If Vicenza, over the centuries, had not enjoyed enlightened entrepreneurs, families devoted to art collecting, and such an attentive and culturally lively ecclesiastical presence, it would probably not have been able to produce and assemble the masterpieces that Palazzo Chiericati holds today.

Sections are then devoted to portraits on copper, ivory, ceroplastics, sketches by Orazio Marinali, and Trento plaster by Canova. There are also views by Cristoforo Dall’Acqua, and to conclude, the Wing ends with rooms devoted to the 19th century in an unprecedented interweaving of key figures in pre- and post-Risorgimento history and the birth of civic collections. The last room is reserved for the Vicenza painter Giovanni Busato, author of some intense portraits.
The layout is based on five colors, to make the main works stand out better and to make the visit enjoyable for the most diverse types of visitors.

“With the opening of the Ala Roi,” says Mayor Giacomo Possamai, “Palazzo Chiericati offers visitors an extraordinary cultural heritage on which the identity of our territory is based in a space that is itself a masterpiece, born from the dialogue between the Palladian building and the other rooms that have been wisely upgraded and reorganized.”

“Now the project of transforming the museum into a citadel of arts and culture, which began in 2010 with the restoration of the Palladian jewel and will end with the redevelopment of the technical, service and reception areas and the recovery of the inner courtyard, takes full shape. This new permanent exhibition route gives the figure of the work we can do for the civic heritage in terms of recovery and enhancement,” added councillor for culture, tourism and city attractiveness Ilaria Fantin.

The new Roi Wing was funded by the Foundation established by Marquis Giuseppe Roi in 1988 with the aim of contributing to the growth and enhancement of the Civic Museums.

The Civic Museum of Palazzo Chiericati is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (last admission at 5:30 p.m.).

Pictured: Giambattista Tiepolo, The Truth Revealed by Time (1745)

Completely renovated new Roi Wing of Vicenza's Palazzo Chiericati opens to the public

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