La Contemporary Art Gallery of Pro Civitate Christiana is located in the historic center of Assisi, in Borgo San Pietro, a few minutes from the Piazza del Comune and the Basilicas of San Francesco and Santa Chiara.
Reopened to the public in 2005, the Gallery is hosted in the headquarters of Pro Civitate Christiana, a lay association founded in 1939 by Don Giovanni Rossi with the aim of promoting Catholic culture in contemporary society.
The first core of the collection was formed with works exhibited at Christian art Personal exhibitions starting from the post-war period. Subsequently, commissions on the iconography of Jesus the divine worker, competitions among artists and students of Academies as well as purchase awards established in major national exhibitions for works on Christological subjects have consistently expanded the collection. It includes works by De Chirico, Dottori, Carrà, Rosai, Tozzi, Menzio, Sassu, Fabbri, Pirandello, Greco as well as by the American artist William Congdon, to whom an entire section is dedicated.
The collection also includes Afro-Asian art works, medals, small bronzes, painted glass windows, mosaics, and the rare complete series of the 58 engravings of the Miserere by Georges Rouault.
Information about the Contemporary Art Gallery of Pro Civitate Christiana
Via Ancajani, 3
06081 Assisi (Perugia)
075813231
galleria@cittadella.org
https://procivitate.assisi.museum
Source: MIBACT
