Galleria Estense

The Galleria Estense or Estense Gallery is an art museum in Modena, with mainly Italian and Spanish 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.

Collection

Sculptures by Niccolo dell'Arca
Nativity with the Two Midwives by Pellegrino Aretusi
Tancredi baptizes Clorinda by Sisto Badalocchio
Bust of Francesco I 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 and 'Ercole d'Este 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 Ercole de'Roberti
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, Andrea del Sarto, 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