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The Museum of Palazzo Bellomo, is located in the historic centre of Ortigia (Syracuse). It was inaugurated in 1948 with an initial accommodation museum, but only in the seventies it was bestowed to the completion of the development. Among the collections stored in the museum it is worth recalling the two sarcophagi of Governors of the Chamber Reginale, John Çabastida and John Cardenas. In rich art gallery, there is the Annunciation of Antonello da Messina, 1474, and excellent collections of sacred silver.  The Palace The annunciation of Antonello da Messina The Palazzo Bellomo, is a building of the thirteenth-fourteenth century. The building has two distinct phases of construction: that old Swabian, identifiable in the structure ramparts of the ground floor and the portal Gothic and the fifteenth, identifiable throughout the upper deck. History In 1365 the building passed ownership to Bellomo, noble Roman family came to Sicily to follow Frederick III of Aragon. During this period was brought forward the cannot of the palace that has clear influences of Catalan art of the fifteenth century. In 1722 the nuns dell'attiguo monastery of St. Benedict the bought and used as a warehouse and dormitory, but with the law of expropriation of 1866, was torn to the old use until, in 1901, was assigned the Administration of Fine Arts , Who worked the first restoration. In 1948 it was used as a museum following the posting of the collection from the medieval and modern complex of prehistoric and classical National Archaeological Museum. To date, the museum is closed for restoration. |
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