The Galleria Nazionale della Puglia “Girolamo e Rosaria Devanna” contains a magnificent collection of works of art ranging from the 16C to the 20C. The collection is housed in the Palazzo Sylos Calò, a wonderful example of 16C Bitonto residential architecture.
Palazzo Sylos Calò, the splendid backdrop to piazza Cavour, is the finest masterpiece of Renaissance residential architecture in Bitonto, and is the outcome of a complex evolutionary process.
Erected over existing medieval buildings, in 1573 the palazzo was granted on a perpetual lease to Giovanni Alfonso Sylos, a member of the Burgos family which arrived in Apulia in 1503, on condition that he restored it. The work was completed in 1584 with the construction of the elegant loggia overlooking the ancient town’s most important square.
In July 2004, brother and sister Rosaria and Girolamo Devanna of Bitonto donated an important, valuable collection of paintings to the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, with the aim of founding the Galleria Nazionale della Puglia of modern and contemporary art, which was opened to the public in 2009.
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Opening days
from Monday to Saturday 8.30am - 7.15pm (last admission 6.30pm)
Sunday 8.30 - 13.30 (last admission 13.00) - Web National Gallery of Puglia "Girolamo and Rosaria Devanna"
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Feature List
- Info line
- Wheelchair accessible
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Accessibility
Partially accessible
The collection comprises 354 paintings and drawings dating from the 16C to the 20C, built up by Girolamo Devanna through tireless searches on the antique market, exchanges with other collectors, or private purchases.
The only connecting theme of this variegated, unpredictable collection is an appreciation of the unexpected and an endless curiosity concerning the different forms of artistic culture, supported by great intuition and an equally impressive knowledge of the history of art.
Museum contains works by the greatest Italian and foreign figurative artists from the 16C, 17C and 18C, representatives of “secondary trends” which still provide important pointers to alternative approaches, 19C Italian, French, German and English masters and schools, and works by European and American contemporary artists. There are also a large number of fascinating sketches, preliminary studies, models, replicas or antique copies, not but not least the fine collection of drawings by Italian and European artists from the 16C to the 20C.
Where
Via G. Rogadeo,14 - Bitonto (Ba)
Transportation
- Train: from Bari, Bari-Barletta regional line, Bitonto stop
- Bus: extra-urban lines FERROTRAMVIARIA S.p.a
- Car: state road 16, Bitonto exit
Visiting Rules
- Face masks strongly reccommended. Find out more
- Prohibited to introduce food and drink, large bag
