THE MUSEUM OF VICENZA Foto di Luca Girardini
Museo civico di Palazzo Chiericati Piazza Matteotti 37/39 36100 Vicenza Office Levà degli Angeli, 11 36100 Vicenza Info Tel. +39 0444 222811 museocivico@comune.vicenza.it www.museicivicivicenza.it Opening hours From September 1st to June 30th 9am-5pm From July 1st to August 31st 10am-6pm Closed on Monday, December 25th and January 1st Ticket Full: € 7,00, reduced € 5,00, school groups € 2,00 Museum Card: Full: € 15,00 reduced € 12,00, school groups € 5,00 For further information about tickets, reductions contact the call center +39 0444 964380 (from Monday to Friday 9-13 and 14-18 - Saturday 9-13) or visit the web site www.musicivicivicenza.it Booking: booking@comune.vicenza.it Ticket office and infopoint: IAT Piazza Matteotti, 12 Vicenza
The building, designed in 1550 for Girolamo Chiericati, is one of the most renowned masterpieces of Andrea Palladio. Embellished by frescoes and stuccos, it is enriched by one of the most prestigious European civic collections. For its exceptional cultural importance, Palazzo Chiericati is declared World Heritage of Humanity site by UNESCO. Palazzo Chiericati The City of Vicenza acquired the building in 1839 from the Chiericati family in order to host the city’s civic art collections. Once restored, expanded and readjusted to its new function, the museum was inaugurated on 18th August 1855. The museum complex is currently composed of three buildings: the Palladian body and the enlargements made in the 1800s and 1900s. The museum now hosts a collection of paintings, sculptures and applied arts from the 1200s to the beginning of the 2000s. In the deposits, open upon request, there are collections of drawings, etchings, manuscripts and numismatics. The restoration of the entire complex is still in progress: at the moment tourists can visit only the exhibition itinerary from 1200s to 1600s and the bequeathal of Giuseppe Roi.
The Basement Opened in 2012 thanks to an accurate restoration, the basement is now assigned to host temporary exhibitions. The works have brought back to light the bases of the antique “casette Chiericati”, which date back to the 14th and 15th centuries, besides the kitchens and the cellars where the servitude worked and where you can still see the well, the fireplace and the suggestive barrel staircase. Furthermore, you can see “roggia del Collo”, a secondary branch of the Bacchiglione covered by a barrel vault of the 13th century, which delimited the west area of the so-called island, where the Palazzo Chiericati lays.
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Benvenuto Tisi, called Il Garofalo
The attic BENVENUTO TISI CALLED IL GAROFALO
STORAGE
FILIPPO DE PISIS JOHN SINGER SARGENT
Bequeathal of Giuseppe Roi In the three rooms of the attic in the north wing, you can see the Bequeathal of the marquis Giuseppe Roi, composed of his personal collection of canvas, drawings, and etchings from the 15th to the 20th century. The setting is a suggestive staging of a house-museum. In the corresponding halls of the south wing you can find the deposits of paintings, as well as collections of graphic art, available upon request.
GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO
Giambattista Tiepolo
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FREGIO DELLA COLONNA TRAIANA VALERIO BELLI JACOPO TATTI, CALLED SANSOVINO
FREGIO DELLE VIRTÙ
LUCA GIORDANO
PAOLO CALIARI, CALLED VERONESE
GIOVANNI DEMIO
PIETRO DELLA VECCHIA GIULIO CARPIONI
JACOPO DA PONTE, CALLED BASSANO
Paolo Caliari, called il Veronese
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In these halls there are artworks of the great Venetian masters of the 1500s such as Bassano, Tintoretto, Veronese, in addition to the sculptures of Sansovino and Vittoria and the rock crystal of Valerio Belli. These are followed by the masterpieces of the 17th century by Luca Giordano, Maffei, Della Vecchia and Carpioni. In the Palladian building you can admire the two frescos in the Virtù Civili and the Collonna Traiana halls, as well as the ceilings with the Apotheosis of the Chiericati family and Apollo on Parnaso.
First floor
The exposition begins with a medieval section where you find masterpieces of Paolo Veneziano, Battista da Vicenza and Hans Memling. Proceeding with your visit you can find the halls dedicated to Bartolomeo Montagna and his school, arriving in a magnificient space which recreates the decorations of the destroyed structure of the S. Bortolomeo church, with its important altarpieces among which the exceptional ones by Montagna, Cima da Conegliano and Giovanni Bonconsiglio.
DECORAZIONI DELLA DISTRUTTA CHIESA DI S. BARTOLOMEO
PAOLO VENEZIANO HANS MEMLING
SALA DEL FIRMAMENTO SALA DEI LUNETTONI
SALA DEL CONCILIO DEGLI DEI SALA D’ERCOLE
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Jacopo Robusti, called Il Tintoretto
Salone d’onore
Hans Memling
Bartolomeo Montagna
Venetian Paintings from 1200s to 1500s
BARTOLOMEO MONTAGNA
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Giulio Carpioni
Venetian Paintings of the 1500s
ALESSANDRO VITTORIA GIOVANNI ANTONIO FASOLO
JACOPO ROBUSTI, CALLED TINTORETTO
Second floor
John Singer Sargent
TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Paolo Veneziano
Marcello Fogolino
Ground floor
Frescoed halls and halls of lunettes On the Ground floor of the Palladian building you can observe the fresco decorations, works of Domenico Brusasorzi (Sala del Firmamento and Sala d’Ercole) and Battista Zelotti (Sala del Concilio degli Dei), embellished by stuccos and grotesques. The exhibition itinerary begins with the hall of the seven civic lunettes by Bassano, Maffei and Carpioni, which illustrate the story of the city’s golden age, between the 1500s and 1600s, under the domain of the Serenissima Republic of Venice. Sala del Firmamento
Francesco Maffei