The Abbot Stanislao White Gallery represents the central core of the current Museum, whose collection also includes the large canvas paintings by Francesco Savonanzi and Tommaso Donini that decorate the presbytery of the church, and those by Vincenzo Pasqualoni and P. Pasquale Minoccheri, preserved in the Room dedicated to Abbot Savastano. It was established in October 2003 in the premises of the former Dispensarium of the Abbey and dedicated to the Irish monk Stanislao White (1839 – 1911) who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, greatly contributed to the Cistercian monastery. The displayed works mostly come from the donation of the collector from Latina, Guglielmo Guidi, mostly engravings and drawings from the 16th to 19th centuries. Original art prints are well represented with woodcuts, etchings, aquatints, and lithographs by some of their greatest interpreters like Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Giovan Battista Piranesi, Francisco Goya, Honoré Daumier. Among the original drawings, the sanguines by Francesco Curti and Luca Giordano and the pencil drawing by Vincenzo Camuccini stand out. Alongside this fundamental core are some works from the historical collection of the Abbey itself, such as the Deposition by Pomarancio (circa 1590) and the portrait of Abbot White, created by Aurelio Mariani in 1902. Also from the historical collection come the coins, medals, antiphonaries, and manuscripts, mostly dating back to the 19th century, displayed in the display cases.
Information about Valvisciolo Abbey Museum (Abbot S. White Gallery)
Badia, 1
04013 Sermoneta (Latina)
0773 30013
abbaziavalvisciolo@yahoo.it
https://www.regione.lazio.it/musei/diocesanovalvisciolo/
Source: MIBACT
