National Museum of Villa Guinigi
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Museo nazionale di Villa Guinigi | |
 Museum of Villa Guinigi and its loggia | |
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| Established | 1924 |
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| Location | via della Quarquonia, Lucca, Italy |
| Website | www.luccamuseinazionali.it |
The Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi is the main art museum hosting the pre-modern art collections owned by the city of
Lucca, Italy
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The museum is located in a refurbished villa on Via della Quarquonia, completed in 1418 for
Palazzo Pubblico. In 1948 it was donated to the Italian state, which carried out a more organized preservation campaign and at the same time rearranged the collection, subsequently distributing it between this villa and the Palazzo Mansi
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The late-Gothic building was constructed from 1413 to 1418 as a Villa di Delizia. It has an imposing brick façade with central ground-floor portico. Once elaborately decorated by Guinigi, it now houses collections of mainly the ancient, medieval, renaissance, baroque, and neoclassic periods.[1]
Gallery
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Berlinghiero Berlinghieri:
Crucifix, ca. 1220. -
Fra Bartolomeo:
God the Father with Sts Catherine of Siena and Mary Magdalen, 1508
References
External links
Media related to Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi (Lucca) at Wikimedia Commons
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