Pinacoteca metropolitana di Bari

The Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari or The Provincial Pinacotheca in Bari is an important Italian Artistic Paintings Museum (Pinacotheca).

It was instituted on July 12th 1928 and initially accommodated at the Palace of Government.

In 1936 it moved to the Palace of Province, along the sea boulevard in Bari, where nowadays is still kept its huge artistic inheritance. The Pinacoteca was named in honour of the famous italian painter Corrado Giaquinto.

The works today exposed at the Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari include:

A medieval section;

Venetian paintings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries donated by numerous Apulia Churches;

Apulian paintings from late medieval and Neapolitan school from beginning medieval centuries;

A section of Corrado Giaquinto’s paintings;

A nineteenth century Neapolitan and Southern Italy paintings important collection;

Tuscany “Macchiaioli” paintings;

Apulian Medieval Majolica’s;

An antique Neapolitan nativity;

Antique apparels;

Nineteenth and twentieth century important paintings, together with important contemporary paintings and artistic works.