The National Gallery of Parma is located in piazza della Pilotta 6 in Parma, inside the Palazzo della Pilotta. The museum exhibits, among others, works by Beato Angelico, Canaletto, Guercino, Leonardo da Vinci, Parmigianino, Tintoretto, Correggio, Sebastiano del Piombo.
During the period in which Parma was governed by the French (1803-1814) the works were transported to Paris and were returned only in 1816. In the same year the government passed to the Duchess Maria Luigia who had the collections rearranged in the Palazzo della Pilotta and built the hall that bears his name.
The Rocchetta was destined for Correggio's paintings in 1825. In the first half of the nineteenth century Maria Luigia bought many aristocratic collections so that they would not be dispersed.
In 1900 the collection was rearranged by the Quintavalle family who separated the paintings by school of origin and by chronology.
A room is set up entirely dedicated to the Parmesan painter Amedeo Bocchi, to Guttuso and other minor artists.
There is a very important work by Leonardo da Vinci, La scapigliata, 1508.
In the seventies the renovation of the Farnese Theater began, built in 1618 by Aleotti for Ranuccio I Farnese and partially destroyed during the Second World War.
National Gallery of Parma - Monumental Complex of the Pilotta
Address: Piazza della Pilotta, 5, 43121
Phone: 0521 233309
Site:
http://pilotta.beniculturali.it/galleria-nazionale/Location inserted by
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