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The museum is located on the outskirts of the town in the ancient Borgo Annunziata

 

The museum is housed in a 14th c. Carmelite Convent which was considerably redesigned between the 16th and 18th centuries, not far from the celebrated Sanctuary of Santissima Annunziata, where the marble statue of the "Madonna of Trapani", attributed to Nino Pisano, is kept and venerated.

 

The museum illustrates with its collections of paintings and sculptures the development of the decorative art in the territory of Trapani and in particular that of applied art, which was very important in the field of coral objects, majolica, gold, silver, and cribs.

 

The collections. The museum originated from the private collection of Count Agostino Pepoli, a strong promoter of the institution at the beginning of the 20th century. Other significant additions have come from deconsecrated convents in Trapani and from the Fardelliana Art Gallery, a rich collection of works of the Neapolitan school donated by General G. B. Fardella to the town of his birth.

The original foundation was later enlarged by bequests, loans and donations of numerous collections of antiquarian interest and of decorative art: noteworthy are the donations of Count Hernandez di Erice and of the Sieri Pepoli Hospice.

 

The museum displays paintings and sculptures and dedicates particular attention to the decorative and applied arts.

 

Ground floor

Rooms 1 and 2 inscriptions and sculptures

 

Upper floor

Rooms 3-11 art gallery, works of 16th to 18th c.

Rooms 12-14 cribs

Rooms 15-16 corals

Rooms 17-18 gold and silver objects

Rooms 19-20 church ornaments and vestments

Room 21 majolicas

Room 22 drawings and engravings

Room 23 archaeological items

Room 24 coins

Room 25 historical relics of Trapani and paintings from 19th c.  

Century

Typology

Artists and schools

The museum exhibits 1300 items

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13th-14th

Painting

Sculpture

Roberto di Oderisio, Unknown Calabro-Sicilian painter

German woodcarver

1 Polyptych, painting on wood, Master of the Trapani Polyptych, late 14th-early 15th c.

2 Enthroned Madonna with Angels, painting on wood, Master of the Trapani Polyptych, late 14th-early 15th c.

3 Enthroned Madonna and Child, painting on wood, unknown Valencian Master, about 1450

15th

Painting

Sculpture

Master of the Trapani Polytptych, Unknown Valencian Master

Gabriele di Battista

1 Polyptych, painting on wood, Master of the Trapani Polyptych, late 14th-early 15th c.

2 Enthroned Madonna with Angels, painting on wood, Master of the Trapani Polyptych, late 14th-early 15th c.

3 Enthroned Madonna and Child, painting on wood, unknown Valencian Master, about 1450

16th

Painting

Sculpture

Andrea Sabatini

da Salerno,

Antonio del Massaro detto il "Pastura", the Master of Frankfurt, Giovanfilippo Criscuolo,

Tiziano Vecellio, Marco Pino da Siena

 

Antonello Gagini,

Bartolomeo Berrettaro, Giuliano Mancino, Vincenzo Gagini, Annibale Scundaniglio

1 A Holy Bishop, painting on wood, Andrea Sabatini da Salerno,

first half 16th c.

2 Stigmatization of St Francis, painting on canvas, Tiziano Vecellio (attr.)

3 Lectern, bronze, Annibale Scundaniglio, 1582

4 St Jacob the Elder, marble, Antonello Gagini, 1552

17th

Painting

Decorative art (corals, goldsmithry)

Massimo Stanzione, Ludovico Carracci, Bernardo Cavallino, Carlo Coppola, Giovanni Ricca, Giacomo De Heusch, Jan Mieuse Molenaer, Pittore Fiammingo, Andrea Carreca, Mattia Preti, Giovanbattista Ruoppolo, Abraham Brueghel, Gaspare Balsano

Fra' Matteo Bavera, Carlo Antonio Grue,craftsmen from Trapani, the Juvara workshop

1 Lamp, golden copper, coral and enamel, Fra' Matteo Bavera, 1633

2 Altar-facing with coral, polychrome silk threads, grenadine, craftsmen from Trapani and Messina

3 Plaquette with Madonna and Child, golden copper, coral and enamel, craftsmen from Trapani

4 Ostensorium, embossed and chiselled gold, Juvara workshop in Messina

18th

Painting

Sculpture

Decorative art (majolicas, church ornaments, cribs)

Francesco Solimena, Francesco De Mura, Leonardo Coccorante, Olivio Sozzi,

Ubaldo Gandolfi

Giacomo Serpotta

Maestranze trapanesi,

Giovanni Matera, Andrea Tipa,

Calogero Mandracchia

1 Crib statuette (St. Joseph), wood, canvas and glue, artists from Trapani

2 Model for equestrian statue of Charles II, bronze, Giacomo Serpotta

3 Bottle with St Rocco, majolica, craftsmen from Trapani

19th

Painting

Decorative art

Giuseppe Errante, Giuseppe Patania

 

Michele Laudicina, Francesco Pizzitola

1 Portrait of the Blessed G. Labre, oil painting on canvas, Giuseppe Errante

2 Portrait of the Queen Maria Cristina, oil painting on canvas, Giuseppe Patania