Description: Ule Mask (the curly), IV century BC, brown clay, probably from Lipari. Large mask depicting an already elderly woman (a wife or a mother), popular among the characters of Menander’s plays. The face, quite full, is covered with a thick layer of whitish clay and is characterized by the large protruding eyes. The thick […]
Description: Krater of the so-called “bell-shaped type” for its characteristic shape, depicting a vibrant everyday scene on the main side: on the left an old, bony fishmonger, with a big white head, while preparing to cut with a piece from a tuna with a knife resting on a stool, as requested by a customer who […]
Description: Tragic mask of the Katàkomos ochrà, greyish clay, IV century BC from Lipari. Much larger than the others, this mask is also one of the most expressive of the museum. It represents a young woman with a fine oval face with her mouth wide open and dull eyes. The woman, characterized by a complex […]
Description: Portrait of a Man by Antonello da Messina, oil on canvas dated 1465. An absolute masterpiece, the portrait is mentioned for the first time in 1860 in a letter of Cavalcaselle written from Termini Imerese to the owner, the Baron Enrico Pirajno of Madralisca as the only work of Antonello seen by the scholar […]
Description: Nautical chart in parchment of the Mediterranean of the first half of the XVII Century. Prezioso Portolano of 1643 of the cartographers Caloiro and Oliva.
Description: View of Cefalù, oil on canvas attributed to Francesco Bevelacqua (Cefalù 1814-1858). The canvas carries the traditional attribution to the painter of Cefalù whose small production (above all of portraits) features his only landscape. Cefalù is represented from a very usual point of view to the illustrators of the city, since the earliest drawings […]
Description: St. John the Baptist, oil on panel by Giovanni Antonio Sogliani (Florence 1492-1544). The painting is a fragment of a larger panel, which contained perhaps a full-length figure in origin. As witnessed by the eye facing down (to the faithful) and the hand raised up, perhaps indicating the Savior. Although the style of the […]
Sybil (Melancholia), oil on panel by Angelo Caroselli (Rome 1585-1652). The unique headdress of this female figure, which is sometimes found as an attribute of the prophets, and the book held open with the judgments of the oracles and with a regretful look that leads to melancholy, led to its interpretation as the Sybil or […]
Description: Traces of the remaining gilding mark the bottom where the stately image of the Madonna with the Child holding up the globe stands. The typical elements of the Cretan school are evident in the treatment of the drapery, especially in the clothes of the child, and in the particular stylistic feature of the face […]
Description: Floor mosaic with a cupid on a swan, I Century BC with limestone multi-colored tiles. Hailing from the urban area of Cefalù, it demonstrates the existence of a rich patrician residence within the walls of the city. The mosaic of the emblem type depicts a white swan in flight with spread wings, ridden by […]
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