{"id":104863,"date":"2020-11-27T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T09:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/palazzo-mosca-civic-museums\/"},"modified":"2020-11-27T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T09:48:15","slug":"palazzo-mosca-civic-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/en\/palazzo-mosca-civic-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Palazzo Mosca \u2013 Civic Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The museums of the city of Pesaro with historical collections from the area and beyond<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The history of the Civic Museums<\/strong> <\/a>is linked to one of the most important families of the nobility in Pesaro<\/strong>: The Mosca<\/strong>, extremely wealthy merchants from Bergamo, arrived in the city around the mid-sixteenth century and soon became part of the local nobility. Their rapid economic and social ascent allowed them to build the suburban Villa Caprile in the seventeenth century and the Palace in the city center that still bears their name:  Palazzo Mosca<\/strong><\/a>. The Civic Museums have been housed here since 1936!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Palazzo Mosca, Civic Museums of Pesaro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition path of the Museums was completely renewed in 2013; visiting them means discovering treasures room by room, allowing oneself to be moved by the works arranged chronologically and thematically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon entering the main hall, one immediately encounters a great masterpiece of the Renaissance: the Altarpiece of theCoronation of the Virgin <\/a><\/em><\/strong>by Giovanni Bellini<\/a><\/strong>. Executed by the Venetian painter around 1475, it was originally placed in the Pesaro church of San Francesco and quickly became an object of devotion for the faithful. The solemnity of the mystical event depicted in the central panel contrasts with the lively episodes of the lives of the saints in the predella, but alongside the theological significance, another hypothesis links the altarpiece to the celebration of the marriage between the lord of Pesaro, Costanzo I Sforza, and Camilla d’Aragona, precisely in 1475.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Giovanni Bellini<\/strong>, the Coronation of the Virgin<\/em>, oil on panel, 1475<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next to it, other paintings from churches and convents in the city that represent significant moments of local figurative culture between the 14th and 15th centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n