Museo Sartorio

The Civico Museo Sartorio ( Municipal Museum Sartorio ) is a museum in Trieste. It was established from the estate of the Sartorio family and now includes the original living quarters of the family from the 19th century, an extensive collection of paintings, sculptures, ceramics and porcelain collection. Among the most important works of the Museum include the Triptych of Saint Clare by Paolo Veneziano and probably his son Marco from the 14th century as well as paintings and drawings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and his son Giandomenico Tiepolo from the 18th century.

Location

The museum is housed in the Villa Sartorio at Largo Papa Giovanni XXIII in Borgo Giuseppino district.

History

Architectural history of the Villa

The area around the present-day Villa Sartorio was in the 17th century outside the city walls and was called Borgo Santi Martyrs ( suburb of the Holy Martyrs ). It was in large part owned by various Catholic orders. 1786 (now Borgo Giuseppino ) established on the site of the Borgo Santi Martyrs ' the City of Giuseppina. It is believed that the palace was built in 1791 on the foundations of a monastery. The floor plan of the building refers to Venetian models, in particular Palladio. The palace was rebuilt several times. Its present, classical appearance was the building 1820-1838 by the architect Nicolò Pertsch, the son of Matteo Pertsch. During the remodeling of Trieste Carlo d' Ottavio Fontana (1774-1832) acquired the building in 1832, which was overwritten his three children at his death. 1836 paid Fontana's daughter Josephine ( 1814-1904 ) her two brothers and became the sole owner of the palace '.

Transition in the possession of the family Sartorio

About Giuseppina Fontana, who had married in 1834 Pietro Sartorio ( 1796-1890 ), the villa became the property of the Sartorio family. After the death of her son Giuseppe Sartorio Giuseppina (1838-1910) inherited the building, which passed in 1911 in the possession of his sister Paolina Sartorio ( 1837-1923 ) and the niece Anna Sartorio Segrè ( 1861-1946 ). 1923 Anna was the last members of the family Sartorio sole heir to the estate.

During and after the Second World War

In 1943, the Villa of German troops and then occupied by Yugoslav partisans. After collection of the Allied forces in Trieste 1946, the ground floor, the second floor and part of the roof of the U.S. troops as a school for about 150 children stationed in Trieste American officers and a suitable accommodation facility of teachers was used.

When the museum

Anna Sartorio Segrè (1861-1946), the granddaughter of Pietro and Giuseppina Sartorio and last member of the family, bequeathed at her death in 1946 the palace, its furnishings, as well as paintings, porcelain and other works of art of Trieste, so it become a museum. The inventory of the estate took June 27, 1946 until February 10, 1947, included, among other things, 350 paintings, 189 prints, 3,028 individual pieces of ceramic, 8,000 books and 726 pieces of furniture in the complete works of over 50 million lire. With the exception of some specimens that were left to the nephew and adopted son of Anna Sartorio Segrè, all furnishings were the property of the municipality of Trieste on February 3, 1947. The building was overwritten until 18 December of the following year the city. Although the ground floor, the second floor and part of the roof was still used by the Allied forces as a school, the first five exhibition halls were opened on the first floor on 2 September 1949. On the same floor inhabited Salvatore Segrè Sartorio, the widower of Anna Sartorio Segrè, some areas that were not accessible to the public, however. After Segrès death in June 1949, the museum was extended to its previous living space and thus extended by a further hall. In September 1953 finally left the Allied forces, the building, which was made ​​fully available to the public on March 18 of the following year.

Expansion of the museum

During renovations in 1966 were four rooms on the ground floor of the building that had been used by the family Sartorio as a guest room, converted by historians Mario Mirabella Roberti and Bianca Maria Favetta in showrooms, where since a ceramic and porcelain collection is kept. In the following decades, more rooms for temporary exhibitions have been partly rebuilt and the Museum thus continuously expanded to include collections and individual works, which have passed through donations in the possession of the city of Trieste. Among the most important collections of Trieste, which were integrated into the museum galleries, include:

• Collection Rusconi - Opuich with about 2,500 paintings, prints, furniture, pottery and other partly antique items (since 1986)
• Stavropulos collection of 150 paintings and sculptures from the 19th and 20th centuries (since 1994)
• Triptych of Saint Clare by Paolo Veneziano and probably his son Marco from the 14th century (since 1996)
• Fontana collection - Sartorio with drawings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and numerous ancient objects, including about 300 pottery with Greek motifs ( since 1998)

In recent renovations between 2003 and 2006 remains of a Roman villa from the 1st century were discovered in AD under the villa, which were integrated into the museum's exhibition.