Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Excerpt from myswitzerland.com:
The Municipal Museum of Villa dei Cedri is housed in a suburban villa of character, with the benefit of reworking in the style of Palladio carried out in around 1920, with the original neo-classic construction dating from 1860. It was opened to the public in 1985 and contains a permanent collection dedicated to art in the areas of Ticino, Lombardy and Switzerland from the second half of the nineteenth century up to the present day. The Museum is particularly appreciated by visitors for its park, the layout of which is unique in the Bellinzona region, and for the vineyard located behind the villa which produces the much-loved Merlot.
The collection of the Museum is represented by works that strongly characterised the period of transition from realism to symbolism (Segantini, Grubicy de Dragon, Pellizza da Volpedo, Rossi, Franzoni, Feragutti-Visconti, Berta, Chiesa and Vela), the subjects of the twentieth century and their regional developments (Carpi, De Grada, Corty, Foglia, Gonzato, Ribola, Sartori, Tallone and Tosi), and the informal – in its dual lyrical/abstract matrix – or with strong expressive values (Cavalli, della Torre, Ferrari, Gabai, Lavagnino, Lucchini, Palerma, Repetto, Sirotti, Spreafico, Strazza).
Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Excerpt from myswitzerland.com:
The Municipal Museum of Villa dei Cedri is housed in a suburban villa of character, with the benefit of reworking in the style of Palladio carried out in around 1920, with the original neo-classic construction dating from 1860. It was opened to the public in 1985 and contains a permanent collection dedicated to art in the areas of Ticino, Lombardy and Switzerland from the second half of the nineteenth century up to the present day. The Museum is particularly appreciated by visitors for its park, the layout of which is unique in the Bellinzona region, and for the vineyard located behind the villa which produces the much-loved Merlot.
The collection of the Museum is represented by works that strongly characterised the period of transition from realism to symbolism (Segantini, Grubicy de Dragon, Pellizza da Volpedo, Rossi, Franzoni, Feragutti-Visconti, Berta, Chiesa and Vela), the subjects of the twentieth century and their regional developments (Carpi, De Grada, Corty, Foglia, Gonzato, Ribola, Sartori, Tallone and Tosi), and the informal – in its dual lyrical/abstract matrix – or with strong expressive values (Cavalli, della Torre, Ferrari, Gabai, Lavagnino, Lucchini, Palerma, Repetto, Sirotti, Spreafico, Strazza).