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| Established | 1894 |
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| Location | Largo Porta Sant'Agostino, 337 41121 Modena, Italy |
| Coordinates | 44°38′55″N 10°55′18″E / 44.6485°N 10.9216°E |
| Type | Art museum, Historic site |
| Website | www |
The Galleria Estense is an art gallery in the heart of Modena, centred around the collection of the d’Este family: rulers of Modena, Reggio and Ferrara from 1289 to 1796. Located on the top floor of the Palazzo dei Musei, on the St. Augustine square, the museum showcases a vast array of works ranging from fresco and oil painting to marble, polychrome and terracotta sculpture; musical instruments; numismatics; curios and decorative antiques.
It was publicly established in 1854 by the last duke, Francis V of Austria-Este, and was relocated in 1894 to its current situation from the Palazzo Ducale.
Since 2014, the Gallery has formed a part the Gallerie Estensi, an independent complex of museums merging the Biblioteca Estense, and the Estense Lapidary Museum in Modena, the Palazzo Ducale in Sassuolo and the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Ferrara. Together, they reflect the progressing tastes of an Italian court of nobility.[1]
- ^ "Storia | Gallerie Estensi". www.gallerie-estensi.beniculturali.it (in Italian). Retrieved 23 July 2019.