New Museum of the Nineteenth Century opens in Pescara with Italian and French masterpieces

A new museum opened in Pescara on Sept. 18: it is Museo dell’Ottocento on Viale Gabriele d’Annunzio, located in the city’s historic former Bank of Italy building. The museum brings together the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Wenceslao Di Persio and Rosanna Pallotta, which includes Italian and French masterpieces of the 19th century.

Two hundred and sixty works chronicle an entire century collected over more than 30 years by the couple.

The exhibition itinerary spans three floors and fifteen rooms, offering visitors a journey through 19th-century art that starts with the paintings of Antonio Mancini and reaches the most important interpreters of the Neapolitan school and the French painters of the 19th century, particularly belonging to the Barbizon School. The Museo dell’Ottocento - Di Persio-Pallotta Foundation opened its doors to visitors to acquaint them with the collection of patron Wenceslao Di Persio: masterpieces that have already aroused the interest and appreciation of national and international critics, as well as scholars and art lovers.

The opening day also featured a lectio magistralis by Vittorio Sgarbi on the themes of the Museum of the Nineteenth Century collection.

The collection began in 1987 by purchasing the Portrait of Mrs. Fry (1907) by painter Antonio Mancini. By the same Roman but adopted Neapolitan author, seventeen other paintings are in the collection, including Prevetariello in preghiera and Verità, both made in 1873, and the latter considered one of the finest works of the Italian nineteenth century.

Among the artists in the collection are Giuseppe De Nittis, Federigo Zandomeneghi, Gustave Courbet, Michele Cammarano (to whom a monographic room is dedicated), Giacinto Gigante, Vincenzo Irolli, Vincenzo Caprile, Théodore Rousseau, and many others who tell the story of Neapolitan Vedutism, the archaeological remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum; the artists of the Posillipo School, the link between Naples and Paris, and the Barbizon School.

The museum tour concludes with the painter Rosa Bonheur, a feminist who worked hard throughout her existence to have her role in the art scene of the time recognized.

For info: https://museodellottocento.eu/

Hours: Daily 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 7:30 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Pictured is a room in the museum. Ph.Credit Museum of the Nineteenth Century

New Museum of the Nineteenth Century opens in Pescara with Italian and French masterpieces

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