Luogo - Museum
Pinacoteca Mus'a al Canopoleno
Where
Via Santa Caterina, 4, Sassari
The museum opened to the public in 2008 in the former Jesuit College
of the Canopoleno, an historical building in the centre of Sassari built by the
archbishop of Oristano Antonio Canopolo between the end of the 16th and the
beginning of the 17th century. Acquired by the State in the first half of the
19th century, the building was restored in the 90s of the 20th century to hold
the valuable state artistic patrimony received through donations and bequests.
The Pinacoteca shows the art collections Sanna and Tomè (this last previously
kept in the storehouses of the National Archaeological Museum G.A. Sanna) and a
large number of works, including ten contemporary paintings acquired with the
Panicali Battaglia donation. The patrimony of the museum is mafe up of more
than 490 paintings, sculptures and artefacts dating from a period between the
Medieval age and the mid- twentieth century, related to different schools and
local, Italian and European artists from the end of the 14th century. Worth mentioning are the triptych by Mariotto di Nardo from Florence
(documented between 1394 and 1424), the works by the so- called Maestro di
Ozieri (half of the 16th century) and the Maddalena by Andrea Vaccaro
from Naples (1604-1670). The most significant sections
are dedicated to nineteenth/early twentieth- century Sardinian artists (Giovanni Marghinotti, the largest collection in
Sardinia, Antonio Ballero, Filippo Figari, Giuseppe Biasi, Carmelo Floris,
Pietro Antonio Manca, Mario Delitala, Stanis Dessy, Eugenio Tavolara), and a
graphic section with valuable works by Giuseppe Biasi and Stanis Dessy.
Now the museum is being restored, so only a selection of
seventeenth/eighteenth- century works, divided by chronology and theme, are
exhibited. Nevertheless the most important paintings are visible on the museum
web site.