Description
They are part of the original collection works of undisputed value including the portrait of Panfilo Serafini by the painter Teofilo Patini and La Scannese, a marble sculpture by Constantine Barbella - a sculptor whose work is represented in major museums around the world - as well as paintings by the Sulmonese Vincenzo Alicandri.
Among the contemporary artists are Remo Brindisi, Alberto Sughi, Ennio Calabria, Sergio Vacchi, Virgilio Guzzi, Renzo Vespignani, Ugo Attardi, Piero Guccione, Ernesto Treccani, Carlo Levi and many others.
It has also fed the group of local artists, including Gaetano Pallozzi and Italo Picini, whose works are now known internationally.
Historical Notes
Established in the second half of the 20th century and housed initially in Palazzo Mazara and then in the complex of SS. Annunziata, the Pinacoteca has finally found its most appropriate location in a room and along the walls of the porch that runs along the cloister of the former convent of Santa Chiara.
Its history is closely connected to that of the "Premio Sulmona", founded in 1974 by the Association of Art and Culture "Il Quadrivio" which then became in 1993 the "International Exhibition of Contemporary Art".
The original nucleus, consisting of a group of works owned by the city, have been added to over time by donations of famous masters linked to the city and from the collection of "Il Quadrivio"; the acquisition of the winning works of the many editions of the event have helped to further expand the collection which now consists of about 240 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, which is constantly growing, by some of the most respected artists of the late 20th century.
