The former convent of the Capuchin Sisters, a large building complex from the sixteenth century, extensively renovated during the eighteenth century, purchased by the Municipality in the early seventies, houses the Multipurpose Cultural Center. Here coexist the Municipal Library and Archive and the various museum sections including ancient and modern art collections, naturalistic ones, along with a small core of archaeological stone artifacts and materials that gather architectural elements and findings related to a Roman necropolis explored since 1954. The ancient section groups paintings and furnishings from churches and convents of the area suppressed during the Napoleonic era, from some city noble residences, from public assistance and charity institutes, from donations and legacies. Among the paintings, dating from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, mostly of local and Emilian origin, there are some excellent works by Giovan Battista Ramenghi, known as il Bagnacavallo (‘Madonna Enthroned and Saints’, ‘Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine’), Andrea Lili (‘Lamentation over the Dead Christ’), Ferraù Fenzoni, Andrea Celesti, Pietro Paltronieri known as il Mirandolese, Tommaso Missiroli, Gaetano Gandolfi. Numerous rooms host paintings, sculptures, and graphic works from twentieth-century Italy. Among others, Virgilio Guidi, Ernesto Treccani, Remo Brindisi, Giuseppe Rambelli are present. A dedicated space is reserved for the Bagnacavallo artist Enzo Morelli, with paintings, drawings, and memorabilia donated by the artist’s spouse. Particularly rich is the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings with some thousands of specimens both ancient (sheets by Dürer, Della Bella, Hogarth, Piranesi, Rosaspina) and by contemporary masters. On the ground floor, the naturalistic section, inaugurated in 1985, exhibits findings concerning different naturalistic disciplines: botany, zoology, paleontology, geology. The collection includes fossils, shells, reptiles, amphibians, birds, insects collected by members of the Society for Naturalistic Studies of Romagna. The group, founded in 1986, also manages the naturalistic area “Oasi Pantaleoni”, owned by the municipality. Structured into three sectors: “conservation”, “school” and “evolution”, according to purposes of scientific research and observation, education, and recreation, the oasis also features an herbal garden.
Information about the Civic Museum of the Capuchins
Via Vittorio Veneto, 1/a,
48012 Bagnacavallo (Ravenna)
0545280913
centroculturale@comune.bagnacavallo.ra.it
https://www.centrolecappuccine.it
Source: MIBACT
