The art collections of Fondazione Cariplo are a gallery of artworks with a significant historical and artistic value owned by Fondazione Cariplo in Italy. It consists of 767 paintings, 116 sculptures, 51 objects and furnishings dating from the first century AD to the second half of the twentieth.

Art collection of Fondazione Cariplo

Giovanni Migliara, View of piazza del Duomo in Milan

The collection includes examples of Late Antiquity stone sculpture, of Mediaeval wooden sculpture, and of Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting; its strength is in its collection of nineteenth-century Italian paintings, particularly from Lombardy.

Selected collection highlights

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  Filippo Palizzi
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  Vincenzo Irolli

History of the collections

The Cariplo bank (Savings Bank of the Lombardy Provinces) began to form the collection in 1923, originally through the acquisition of paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists exhibited in Milan with the aim to promote and encourage the arts in Lombardy. This policy continued after the Second World War, and increased with annual purchases of the Permanente company and exhibitions of religious art at the Angelicum. Since the late 1960s, it began to make purchases at sales held by auction houses. The works of Istituto Bancario Italiano were added to its collection. It includes a portrait gallery of former Cariplo presidents. After the passage of the Amato Law donations increased, including the (Manara Grolle, Marcenaro legacy). Completing the collection of presidential portraits at the Cariplo, are paintings and sculptures of the nineteenth and twentieth century depicting many of the protagonists of the modern Italian economy. The collection was inherited the aftermath of the Amato Law, the Cariplo Foundation increased as a result of subsequent donations (legacy Manara, Grolla, Marcenaro). In 2011 within the project, Share Your Knowledge, the foundation was made available under CC BY-SA boards of authors and works of art, including low-resolution images of the works in their collections.[1]

Gallerie di Piazza Scala

The Gallerie di Piazza Scala, a museum of nineteenth-century art, opened in Milan in 2011. It holds almost two hundred artworks from the Cariplo collections and those of Intesa San Paolo, ranging from bas-reliefs by Antonio Canova to works by Umberto Boccioni.[2]

List of artists in the collections

See also

• Fondazione Cariplo
• Gallerie di Piazza Scala
• Google Arts & Culture

References

• Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio delle Province Lombarde, Le collezioni d'arte - Dal Classico al Neoclassico, ed. Maria Luisa Gatti Perer, 1998
• Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio delle Province Lombarde, Le collezioni d'arte - L'Ottocento, ed. Sergio Rebora, 1999
• Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio delle Province Lombarde, Le collezioni d'arte - Il Novecento, ed. Sergio Rebora, 2000

External links

• Official opening of Gallerie d'Italia - Piazza Scala (on Wikinews - Italian)
• Artgate Fondazione Cariplo
• Art collection of Fondazione Cariplo within Google Arts & Culture
• Media related to Artgate Fondazione Cariplo at Wikimedia Commons