Location L'Aquila Province Province of L'Aquila | Type Art museum Phone +39 0862 28420 | |
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Address Via Arco S. Jacopo della Rivera, 35, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy Hours Open today · 9AM–7PMWednesday9AM–7PMThursday9AM–7PMFriday9AM–7PMSaturday9AM–7PMSunday9AM–7PMMondayClosedTuesday9AM–7PMSuggest an edit Similar Forte Spagnolo - L'Aquila, Basilica of San Bernardino, Fontana luminosa, Fontaine aux 99 cannelles, Santa Maria di Collemaggio | ||
The Museo Nazionale d'Abruzzo is hosted in the Forte Spagnolo of L'Aquila.
The Museum is on three floors: on the ground floor, there is the giant skeleton of an Archidiskon meridionalis (improperly called mammoth, a prehistoric "elephant") found a few miles from Aquila in 1954, and an archeological section with pieces of the Italic pre-Roman period, a section with inscriptions and pieces from the Roman towns in Abruzzo, among them a fine Roman calendar from Amiternum (25 AD).
On the first floor the medieval and modern art section, with works of Abruzzese artists of the centuries 13-17th such as: the polyptych by Jacobello del Fiore; a Processional Cross by Nicola da Guardiagrele, a group of wooden and terracotta sculptures such as a St Sebastian by Silvestro dell'Aquila and another by Saturnino Gatti; paintings by Flemish and Roman and Neapolitan artists such as Sebastiano Conca, Bedeschini, Francesco Solimena, Francesco de Mura; finally the contemporary art section with such artists as M. Vaccari, Renato Guttuso, Virgilio Guidi, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Orfeo Tamburi, and Remo Brindisi.