Sartorio museum – Trieste

Description

The Sartorio Civic Museum, recently reopened to the public after years of restoration, is housed in the 18^th century villa that belonged to the Sartorio family.
It preserves original 19^th century furnishings, a collection of precious ceramics, a large art collection, and the Rusconi-Opuich collection which includes approximately 2,500 artefacts, from ancient to 20^th century (paintings, drawings, prints, jewellery, fabrics, silver, etc.), an important collection of drawings by Tiepolo, and the Triptych of Santa Chiara, a masterpiece of 14^th-century Trieste.
The basement displays the applied art and jewellery collections and the remains of a 1^st century AD Roman domus which was found during the restoration work. The picture gallery in the former stables includes over a thousand paintings from the collections of the Civic Museums of History and Art. The former carriage depot is used as a plaster-cast museum, with around six hundred sculptures from the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

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