CIVICO MUSEO REVOLTELLA

An impressive municipal collection in Palazzo Brunner, the former home of Baron Pasquale Revoltella (1795-1869), who was one of the great men of Trieste and its prosperity in the 19th century. The city, which inherited this fortune, has put on display about 350 works of painting and sculpture spread over six floors, if we count the contemporary renovation of the roof terrace. All the periods in the history of modern Italian art are represented here, making for an exciting visit.

The monumental neoclassical staircase leads to the^first and^second floors. It opens onto the Baron's private apartments, vast anterooms and galleries, ceremonial rooms, and bedrooms where one discovers the incredible wealth of period furniture, tapestries, paintings, neoclassical sculptures, and perfectly arranged lighting fixtures. The library, with its woodwork, its large bound books that reach up to the ceiling, the study table and its rococo armchairs, is impressive!

On the upper floors, numerous works acquired from 1872 onwards, with on the^3rd floor the Italian artists of the second half of the 19th century, on the^4th floor the artists of the end of the 19th century and the First World War, on the^5th floor the artists of the beginning of the 20th century in Trieste and in Italy (Marussig, Bolaffio, Timmel, Dudovich, Casorati, Sironi, Carrà, De Chirico, Morandi, Martini) On the 6th floor, contemporary art finds its place in the large open room with a panoramic view of the city and the sea.