Address: via delle Belle Arti 56, 40126, Bologna
The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna offers an important and rich overview of Bolognese and Emilian painting from the 13th to the 18th century, but it also houses a variety of works by non-Bolognese artists who had something to do with the city in some way (among the best known: Giotto, Raphael, Tintoretto, Vasari, Titian).
It is housed-along with the Academy of Fine Arts-in the spaces of the former Jesuit novitiate of Sant’Ignazio, spaces that were designed by Bolognese architect Alfonso Torreggiani and built between 1728 and 1735.
The picture gallery was born in 1808 as the picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts-an institution that had replaced the 18th-century Accademia Clementina, which was the art section of the Institute of Sciences-and became an autonomous museum in 1882.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.museidibologna.it/pinacoteca-nazionale
