Galleria Estense

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Website Official website Phone +39 059 439 5711		Province Province of Modena Established 1884

Location Largo Porta Sant'Agostino, 337 41121 Modena, Italy Type Art museum, Historic site Address Largo Porta Sant'Agostino, 337, 41121 Modena MO, Italy Hours Open today · 8:30AM–7:30PMFriday8:30AM–7:30PMSaturday8:30AM–7:30PMSunday2–7:30PMMondayClosedTuesday8:30AM–7:30PMWednesday8:30AM–7:30PMThursday8:30AM–7:30PM Similar Casa Museo Luciano, Museo della figurina, Modena Cathedral, Torre della Ghirlandina, Ducal Palace of Modena Profiles Facebook Twitter

The Galleria Estense or Estense Gallery is an art museum in Modena, with mainly Italian paintings from the 14th to the 18th century, formed around the collection of the House of Este, rulers of Modena (1288–1796). It is located on the upper floor of the Palazzo dei Musei, on the St. Augustine square, a building from the late 18th century. It was opened in 1884.

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Sculptures by Niccolo dell'Arca

Nativity with the Two Midwives by Pellegrino Aretusi

Tancredi baptizes Clorinda by Sisto Badalocchio

Bust of Francesco I d'Este by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Crucifixion and The Annunciation by Francesco Bianchi

Pieta with symbols of the Passion by Bartolomeo Bonascia

Madonna with Child by Sandro Botticelli

Madonna and Child known as the Madonna Campori by Correggio

The Nativity by Battista Dossi

The Jester, Madonna and Child with St. George and St. Michael, Ercole d'Este and others by Dosso Dossi

Modena Triptych by El Greco

Hercules on horseback, sculpture by Bertoldo di Giovanni

Martyrdom of St. Peter and Venus, Cupid and Mars by Guercino

Holy Family and Portrait of the poet Fulvio Testi by Ludovico Lana

Portrait of Henri II of France by Corneille de Lyon

Martyrdom of St. Catherine by Lelio Orsi

Madonna and Child by Domenico Panetti

Bronze sculptures by Andrea Riccio

Lucretia, Brutus and Collatinus by Gianfrancesco Maineri

Veduta di una Baia and Erminia carving Tancred's name by Salvator Rosa

The Contest of Apollo and Marsyas by Tintoretto

St. Anthony of Padua by Cosimo Tura

Portrait of Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena by Diego Velázquez

Works by Carlo Bononi, Francesco Botticini, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Charles le Brun, Cima da Conegliano, Jan Gossaert, Tommaso da Modena, Guido Reni, Lionello Spada, Joos van Cleve, Palma Vecchio and Veronese

A collection of ceiling paintings from Este palaces and elsewhere, with works by Ludovico Carracci (a Flora), Tintoretto (Scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses) and Nicolo dell'Abate.

A Camera delle Meraviglie, with exotic and unusual objects

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