The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza houses many works in its ample exhibition spaces; from Italian and European works from Medieval Ages to the nineteenth century, to important sections dedicated to pre-Colombian America, ancient Greece, the Roman period, the Middle East and Islamic ceramics.
Palazzo Milzetti is the richest and the most complete example of that elegant architectonical and decorative civilization that blossomed in Faenza during the neoclassical age, which made it a small capital of good taste. Count Nicola Milzetti gave the go-ahead for construction works in 1792, using the services of the architect Giuseppe Pistocchi from Faenza. His son Francesco carried on with the works assigning them to the architect Giovanni Antonio Antolini from Castel Bolognese and to the painter FeliceGiani, who performed the beautiful deco...
Faenza’s Municipal Art Gallery is the town’s most ancient museum. It houses a rich collection of works, especially paintings, divided into two sections; the Antique Hall, which represents a wide collection of local art from Roman times to the end of the XVIII century, and the Modern Art Hall with works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, grouping together stylistic schools and trends.Description: The founding of the Faenza Art-Gallery goes back to 1979, a year in which the local town council acquired a large collection of prints, plast...
The Museum of Risorgimento and Contemporary Age in Faenza houses a collection of objects and documents regarding historical figures and events in Faenza and its surroundings starting from 1790, the year in which Napoleon’s troops arrived in town, to the end of the Second World War in 1945. It also preserves letters and portraits of the major protagonists of Italian Risorgimento, such as Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Vittorio Emanuele II, as well as papers about wars in Italian colonies and the First World War. At present , in expecta...
The museum houses the conspicuous collection belonging to Bishop Mons. Giuseppe Battaglia, a keen art enthusiast who, during his lifetime, has mainly collected paintings with a local or Lombardy origin, or those of the Diocese and other Diocesan Ecclesiastical Organizations. Most of the works were destined for worship and are an example of local religious traditions, filtered down by the artistic dimensions of unheard of or unknown artists, with characteristics which are both sophisticated and humble, if not common. The rooms in the Palazzo Ves...