Palais Fesch - Museum of Fine Arts, Ajaccio | Hours, exhibitions and artworks on Artsupp

Palais Fesch, or Fesch Museum, is Ajaccio's fine arts museum. It is housed in a 19th century palace built by the will of Cardinal Joseph Fesh, Napoleon's maternal uncle. The core of the museum's rich collection originates from the cardinal's passion for Italian art, who collected over 16,000 works by artists from the peninsula. Today, the Fesh Museum's collection of works by Italian artists is the second in France after that of the Louvre Museum. The museum's collection includes numerous works covering a time span from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. Among the most important works there are works by artists such as Lorenzo di Credi, Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Perugino, Tiziano, Veronese, Filippo Vitale and several others. The collection of the Flemish school includes works by artists such as van Dyck, van Aelst, Berchem, Mengs. Works by many sculptors are also exhibited, including Antonio Canova, Lorenzo Bartolini, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. The north wing of the building houses the Municipal Library, founded in the 19th century on the initiative of Luciano Bonaparte, with a prestigious collection of volumes of history, theology and literature. In the south wing is the imperial chapel, built in the mid-nineteenth century in a neo-Renaissance style.

	opens - closes	last entry
monday	09:15 - 18:00
tuesday	09:15 - 18:00
wednesday	09:15 - 18:00
thursday	09:15 - 18:00
friday	09:15 - 18:00
saturday	09:15 - 18:00
sunday	09:15 - 18:00

Palais Fesch - Museum of Fine Arts

Palais Fesch - Museum of Fine Arts

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