Museo nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

File:Palazzo Venezia Pano (1).jpg Palazzo Venezia.
Established	1921
Dissolved	1929, reopened in 1943
Location	Rome (Italy), Via del Plebiscito 118
Coordinates
Type	Art museum
Visitors	58,754
Director	Edith Gabrielli
Owner	Republic of Italy - Ministry of Culture
Website	http://museopalazzovenezia.beniculturali.it/

The Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia is a state museum in Rome (Italy), housed in the palace of the same name together with the important Library of Archaeology and Art History.

Collections

The Museum preserves paintings by artists such as Fra Angelico, Giorgione (Double portrait, about 1502), Giotto, Benozzo Gozzoli, Guercino, Carlo Maratta, Pisanello (Head of a woman), Guido Reni, Giorgio Vasari, Alessandro Algardi, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, as well as pastels, sculptures, bronzes, majolica, terracotta, western and oriental porcelain, medals, seals, furniture, weapons, ivories, silver, glass, enamels, fabrics and tapestries. It also preserves approximately 3,000 works from the Wurts Collection, which was formed by George Washington Wurts and Henrietta Tower and bequeathed to the Italian state on her death in 1933.
The external loggia (Garden of Paul II) houses a lapidarium.
The museum also hosts temporary exhibitions.

Image gallery

• Giovanni di Francia, originally Jean Charlier, Madonna and Child, 1429, 104x51cm, Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia, Rome.jpg

  Giovanni Charlier, Madonna with Child, 1429

• Gozzoli - The Redeemer, Museo Di Palazzo Venezia.jpg

  Benozzo Gozzoli, The Redeemer (15th century)

• Pisanello (attr.), ritratto di donna, affresco staccato, palazzo venezia, roma.jpg

  Pisanello, Portrait of a woman (1430s)

• Giorgione 100.jpg

  Giorgione, Double portrait (ca. 1502)

Transports

• Fermata metropolitana Metro stop (Colosseo, line B)

External links

• Official museum website