Museum of the Nativity of the Civic Art Gallery

The Museum of the Nativity of the Civic Art Gallery is a museum of the city of Imperia which is located in Piazza del Duomo, in the nineteenth-century Palazzo del Collegio.

The museum was restored in 2008, and today consists of four different exhibition rooms with ample space dedicated to the eighteenth-century season of the Genoese Nativity.

Room 1 - Entrance

Here are exhibited two large canvases by Francesco Bruno (Porto Maurizio, 1645-1722), The Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi, works dating from the early eighteenth century. There are also four video stations where the history of the Berio family, the Imperia Nativity scene and the history of the restoration of wooden statuettes are presented.

Room 2 - The Hall of the Nativity

In the splendid “Sala degli Stucchi” the grandiose “Imperia Nativity Scene” is exhibited, created by the workshop of the Genoese sculptor Anton Maria Maragliano in the first half of the eighteenth century; the work consists of 113 wooden statuettes, having a variable height between 22 and 52 cm, of which 32 are for animals and 81 for humans.

Room 3 - Pinacoteca. XVIII-XIX century

The room displays the oldest canvases from the Rebaudi Collection dating back to the 18th-19th century; among the works on display we note the large canvas by the painter Raffaele Giannetti (Porto Maurizio 1837 - Genoa 1915), The colloquium of Charles V and Clement VII.

Room 4 - Pinacoteca. 19th-20th century

The most recent canvases from the Rebaudi Collection are exhibited in the room; worthy of note are the works of Ernesto Rayper, Oscar Saccorotti, Silvia Maggioni and Rita Saglietto.

Map: Museum of the Nativity of the Civic Art Gallery

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Address: Piazza Duomo, 11, 18100
Imperia (IM) Liguria
Latitude: 43.8752951
Longitude: 8.0143457
Site: http://www.iisl.it/museopresep...

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Type: Building
Function: Museum
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Last update: 21/12/2020