Grandiose salons with Russian icons and Venetian paintings
With locations in Milan, Turin, Naples and Vicenza, the Gallerie d’Italia forms a network of cultural and museum hubs belonging to Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest bank. Opened in 1999, the Vicenza outpost is the bank’s first museum, housed in Palazzo Leoni Montanari, a 17th-century mansion built by the wealthy merchant and noble Giovanni I Leoni Montanari. It hosts an exquisite collection of 18th-century Venetian paintings, from en plein air works by Canaletto and Francesco Zuccarelli to vibrant society pictures by Pietro Longhi and his followers, plus Francesco Bertos’s captivating sculpture “Fall of the Rebel Angels.” The museum is also home to one of the most significant collections of Russian icons in the West, as well as ancient Greek painted pottery.
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