The museum was inaugurated in December 2008 inside the former Jesuit College of Canopoleno, a historic building in the center of Sassari built between the late 1500s and early 1600s by the Archbishop of Oristano, Antonio Canopolo. The building, which passed to the State in the first half of the 19th century, underwent restoration and adaptation work in the 1990s, allowing a rich state-owned artistic heritage to be made accessible in a large and prestigious space, supplied through donations and bequests. The Art Gallery houses the important Tomè and Sanna art collections, the latter until recently kept in the warehouses of the National Archaeological Museum G.A. Sanna, as well as a number of works from various origins, including ten contemporary art pieces acquired with the Panicali Battaglia donation. Its artistic heritage, consisting of over 490 paintings, sculptures, and artifacts spanning from the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century, documents various local, Italian, and European schools and artists from the late 14th century onward. Among the main works are the triptych attributed to the Florentine Mariotto di Nardo (records 1394-1424), the panels by the so-called Master of Ozieri (mid-16th century), and the Magdalene by the Neapolitan Andrea Vaccaro (1604-1670). However, the most significant works are those by Sardinian artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries (Giovanni Marghinotti, whose collection is the largest in Sardinia held by the Art Gallery, Antonio Ballero, Filippo Figari, Giuseppe Biasi, Carmelo Floris, Pietro Antonio Manca, Mario Delitala, Stanis Dessy, Eugenio Tavolara), and the graphic works collection by Giuseppe Biasi and Stanis Dessy. Currently, pending the completion of further necessary restoration interventions, the Art Gallery exhibits only a selection of 17th and 18th-century works, organized by chronology and thematic areas; however, it is possible to view the most significant works by visiting the museum’s website.
Information about Mus’a Art Gallery at Canopoleno
Via Santa Caterina, 4
07100 Sassari (Sassari)
0703428203
pm-sar@beniculturali.it
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