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This very important and valuable artifact whose BUST dates from 1521 and the BASE from 1669-1670, is made of SILVER AND MATERIAL GILDED WITH EMBOSSED AND CHISELED FOIL. This reliquary bust of St. Anne was made by commission of Isabella Moncada, wife of Simone I Ventimiglia, as can be seen in the inscription at the […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The specimen was found together with other similar samples, in the extrados’ vault of the environment 16, where these artefacts were used again after the break or the defunctionalisation, as a material to fill or to light the vaulted roof. This is a pitcher, fortuitously recovered intact, with a striped rim, a trefoil […]

Within the historical and archaeological section, consisting of some didactic panels that tell the hypothesis of the construction phases of the ancient castle and explain what it is today kept in the form of a noble palace, as a result of a series of expansions, restorations, renovations and alterations that have completely obliterated the original […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: This work of Francesco De Grandi is untitled. Francesco De Grandi (Palermo, 1968) is considered one of the most interesting and original authors of the Italian art scene. In his realistic painting blend visual memories, literary suggestions which coexist in an Arcadian dimension. The settings, almost always natural, are wooded landscapes, rocks, skies […]

Alessandro Bazan (Palermo, 1966) trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, uses the figurative painting to tell stories, inserting its unique characters built with rapid brushstrokes within the urban or natural landscapes. The stretched and elongated figures painted by Bazan never involve the spectator directly, which is not found as an active observer […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Mario Bardi (Palermo, 1922 – Milan, 1998) was a painter and draftsman. In 1951 he graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. During his formative years he won a prize for painting at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts Academies (Rome 1950) and a scholarship for young artists offered […]

The work of Mario Schifano is mainly characterized by the use of industrial colours dripping onto the canvas, numbers and letters that cross each other, forming words referring to the urban context; the artist often painted two-coloured or monochrome, anemic landscapes, which are made with oils or industrial enamels. Schifano draws on the state of […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: In his artistic research he was influenced by the German expressionist artists George Grosz and Otto Dix, making an original “symbolist Expressionism” which also recalls the style of the European satirical graphic of the 20th Century. He uses a variety of techniques, from design, to tempera, pastels and mixed media, and his graphic […]

This valuable artefact, dating from the late 17th century and called “frontal” can be distinguished for the richness of its materials: gold and silver threads, coral beads, freshwater pearls and grenadine, arranged in a tight floral embroidered subject. The solution of the design has a wide horizontal band, released by the main decoration, bordered by […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The precious alabaster sculpture presents the Virgin Immaculate into the iconography of the 16th Century which associates the Virgin Mary to the figure of the woman of the Apocalypse (Giovanni, 12:1-6), sun dressed and surrounded by the stars, while dominating the dragon, a symbol of evil. The liveliness of the sculptural work and […]