Boville Ernica. Civic Museum

The Civic Museum of Boville Ernica is located in the Church of San Francesco of 1377, adorned with frescoes attributed to Byzantine art, from the thirteenth century, the fourteenth and the seventeenth century.

On one wall is a trace of a fourteenth-century cycle of a pupil of Giotto.

The church has an altar frontal (antependium or paliotto) and a precious wooden ceiling of the seventeenth century.

There is a very beautiful organ, from the seventeenth century, on whose doors are painted figures of St. Francis and the Immacolata.
 

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The Museum-Study Centre on European landscape painting of Lazio exhibits drawings, serigraphs and prints of the artists of Grand Tour.

In the nineteenth century, Olevano Romano hosted important German, Danish, French and other European country’s painters that have chosen it as the goal of their "trip to Italy" to acquire skill in the reproduction of landscapes.

The light, the variety of rocky landscapes and lush natural environments have attracted great artists like the Tyrolean painter Joseph Anton Koch, Jean-Baptiste Corot, who immortalized in beautiful works the olevanese countrside, Friederich von Olivier and Franz Theobald Horny, who died at a very young age and is buried in the Church of St. Rocco.

In the 1920s German painter Alexander Kanoldt, one of the protagonists of the artistic movement called New Objectivity, stayed here.

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Municipal Museum of Modern Art
Municipal Museum of Modern Art

The Municipal Museum of Modern Art is located in the baronial palace of Anticoli Corrado was built in the seventeenth century and now houses. The building was donated to the City by Prince Marcantonio Brancaccio, included in the area of the ancient castle that had been transformed into baronial building.

The museum was opened as Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in 1935 in two rooms in the village square. It was the brainchild of Richard Assanti and Pietro Gaudenzi artists who wanted to collect the numerous works of art carried out in this place by artists such as Kokoschka, Carena, Martini, Salvati, and De Carolis.

Around 74 works including drawings, paintings and sculptures were shown at the opening and this rose to about 200. Between 1963 and 1975 among the artists who stayed 1975 was the great Rafael Alberti.

Today there are 600 works and the museum had its first official catalog in 1995.

 

 

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Greccio. Museum M.A.C.S.

The MACS - Museum of Contemporary Art ‘Sensorialismo’ in Greccio wants to represent the 'sensory side' of painting.

In 2012, this cultural movement was founded by the painter Guido Carlucci from Rieti, and the museum is located within the halls of Old City Hall.

The museum collects works of artists belonging to the movement from many parts of Italy and abroad. There are painting and sculpture exhibitions.
 

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