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Museum 17 May 2024
The Museum

Palazzo Fogazzaro became an exhibit space after being renovated between 2002 – 2003 and a Civic Museum in 2021. The Museum has two main goals: …

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Museum 17 May 2024
Entrance

A brief guide to the exhibited pieces The entrance to the building is at the top of a small stairway giving access to the portico …

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Museum 17 May 2024
Raul Meel Room

Raul Meel was the guest of honour of the second edition of ‘’Papermade. Internatinal Paper Artworks Biennal’’(link). Originally from Estonia, he studied electric engineering at …

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Museum 17 May 2024
Hall of Frescoes

This is the only museum room decorated with frescoes, realised at the time the palace was built. The frescoes are in the Pompeian style. The …

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Museum 16 May 2024
Collections

Alfredo Ortelli Fund This fund, donated largely by Maria and Toni Ortelli, composer and brother to Alfredo, includes paintings, drawings and documents. Ceramic Fund 80 …

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Museum 16 May 2024
Female Nude by Gaetano Veronese

Born in Schio, Gaetano Veronese (1905-1960) was an important voice in XX century Schio. He learned to model iron in his father’s blacksmith workshop in …

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Museum 16 May 2024
The Asilo Rossi Marble Busts

The twelve marble busts exhibited here were originally placed in the entrance hall of Asilo Rossi (a Nursery School founded by Rossi) in accordance to …

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Museum 16 May 2024
The three ovals by Louis Dorigny

Exhibited along the staircase that takes to the second floor, are two of the three oval paintings present in the museum and realised by French …

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Museum 16 May 2024
La Tessitrice – The Spinner

One of the more important and interesting pieces from Alessandro Rossi’s industrial Schio is “The Spinner” (“La Tessitrice”) , by Milan artist Antonio Tantardini (1829-1879). …

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Museum 15 May 2024
The History Of Palazzo Fogazzaro

Palazzo Fogazzaro was built in 1810 according to the project by architect Carlo Barrera (1759 – 1837), from Lugano, who, here in Schio, also designed Palazzo …

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