Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori

The Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori is a biographical museum in Livorno, Tuscany, dedicated to the Italian painter Giovanni Fattori and to Italian contemporary art in general. It is located in the evocative setting of Villa Mimbelli and it was inaugurated in 1994 by the President of the Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. The museum houses a vast collection of paintings by Giovanni Fattori and other Italian Macchiaioli and post-Macchiaioli painters.[1]

Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, at the Villa Mimbelli, in Livorno

History

The origins of the museum date to 1877, when the municipal administration decide to establish an art gallery to reunite paintings by contemporary Italian artists such as Giovanni Fattori, Enrico Pollastrini and Cesare Bartolena. Subsequently, the art collection was enlarged with works by Raffaello Gambogi, Silvestro Lega, Guglielmo Micheli, and others.[2]

Between the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century the collection was enriched with the acquisition of archaeological findings and a numismatic collection which was donated by Enrico Chiellini in 1893. Upon Fattori's death, in 1908, the museum purchased 250 drawings and 150 etchings from his autorship.[3]

The new and larger museum headquarters in Piazza Guerrazzi was inaugurated in 1896. At the beginning of the 1930s, the museum was named after Giovanni Fattori.

During World War II, the museum's collection was moved out of the city. At the end of the conflict, part of its collection was placed on the second floor of Villa Fabbricotti and the rest was located in the various municipal offices and warehouses. At the same time the collection was enriched with works by Italian artists such as Plinio Nomellini, Guglielmo Micheli, Serafino De Tivoli, Oscar Ghiglia, and Ulvi Liegi. It was also purchases a cartoon attributed to Amedeo Modigliani.[4][5]

In 1994 the museum, consisting partially of the collection, was moved to Villa Mimbelli.

References
  1. Storia del Museo, Museo civico Giovanni Fattori (Italian)
  2. Storia del Museo, Museo civico Giovanni Fattori (Italian)
  3. G. Piombanti, Guida storica ed artistica della città e dei dintorni di Livorno, Livorno, 1903 (Italian)
  4. Storia del Museo, Museo civico Giovanni Fattori (Italian)
  5. E. Spalletti, S. Bietoletti (coordinators), La Pittura a Livorno tra le due guerre. Nella raccolta della fondazione Cassa di Risparmi, Livorno, Sillabe, 2006 (Italian)

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