La Galleria Abate Stanislao White represents the central core of the current Museum, whose heritage 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, kept in the Room dedicated to Abate 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, worked hard for the Cistercian monastery. The exhibited works come almost entirely from the donation of the collector from Latina Guglielmo Guidi, mostly engravings and drawings from the 16th – 19th century. Original art prints are well represented with woodcuts, burin engravings, etchings, aquatints, and lithographs by some of its greatest interpreters, such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Giovan Battista Piranesi, Francisco Goya, Honorè Daumier. Among the original drawings, the red chalks by Francesco Curti and Luca Giordano and the pencil by Vincenzo Camuccini stand out. Next to this fundamental core appear some works from the historical fund of the Abbey itself, such as the Deposition by Pomarancio (circa 1590) and the portrait of Abate White, made by Aurelio Mariani in 1902. Also from the historical fund come the coins, medals, antiphonaries, and manuscripts, mostly dating back to the 19th century, displayed in the showcases.
Information about the Museum of the Abbey of Valvisciolo (Galleria Abate S. White)
Badia, 1
04013 Sermoneta (Latina)
0773 30013
abbaziavalvisciolo@yahoo.it
https://www.regione.lazio.it/musei/diocesanovalvisciolo/
Source: MIBACT
