Regional artists
Names from Verona and northern Italy absent from the national museums.
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A gallery of modern art inside the Palazzo della Ragione in the heart of Verona, showing Italian art from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. The collection is founded on a bequest from Achille Forti, a Veronese botanist and art collector who gave his holdings to the city in the early twentieth century. Other works were added later. What distinguishes it is the regional focus: artists from Verona and northern Italy you will not see in the great national museums, alongside known Italian names from the modern movements. The gallery occupies the palace's upper floors, and the rooms themselves are medieval with timber ceilings and stone walls — the contrast between modern art and a medieval space is part of the experience. The ticket may be combined with the Torre dei Lamberti in the same building — ask at the desk, as that is better value if you are climbing the tower anyway. It stands in the heart of Verona between the two main squares, so it needs no detour.
Names from Verona and northern Italy absent from the national museums.
Achille Forti gathered the holdings and gave them to the city in the early 1900s.
Twelfth-century stone and timber behind twentieth-century work.
Palazzo della Ragione, central Verona
Scala della RagioneAn external stone staircase in the Mercato Vecchio courtyard in central Verona, 1 min walk
Torre dei LambertiThe Lamberti tower is Verona's highest point: eighty-four metres grown across ce1 min walk
Palazzo della RagioneA complex of twelfth-century buildings between Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza dei 1 min walk
Cappella dei Notai (Chapel of the Notaries)A few steps above the vegetable market, behind a door nobody notices, hides one 1 min walk
Piazza delle ErbePiazza delle Erbe is Verona's Roman forum that never stopped working — two thous1 min walkAfter the essentials. Verona is visited for the Arena, the old city, Juliet's house and Castelvecchio, and those have the first claim on your first day. This gallery is a good addition for a second day or for anyone interested in modern Italian art, and its central position makes it easy to fold in.
A fourteenth-century castle on the river holding Verona's main art museum: painting from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, sculpture and arms. The building is architecturally famous because Carlo Scarpa restored it in the 1960s in a way that became an international reference for restoring historic buildings.
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