Carlo Rizzarda Modern Art Gallery

The «Carlo Rizzarda» Gallery of Modern Art in Feltre was founded by the will of Carlo Rizzarda , one of the most important wrought iron artists of the early twentieth century. In 1926 he purchased Palazzo Bovio-Villabruna Cumano , a sixteenth-century residence in the historic center of Feltre, with the intention of creating a museum of decorative art in his hometown. Upon his death, the Municipality of Feltre inherited, in addition to the palace, all of Rizzarda's wrought iron deposits at the artist's villa and workshop in Milan as well as his art collection, including paintings including a Schiele , sculptures , objects of decorative art , furniture and chinoiserie that Rizzarda had purchased to furnish his Milanese home.

Over time, the Gallery's heritage has been significantly enriched also thanks to the journalist and art critic Liana Bortolon who donated her personal collection of contemporary art. Among the almost 100 works, Picasso 's ceramics, a wonderful Severini and some paintings by his friend Campigli stand out.

Another important enrichment is the recent Nasci - Franzoia collection of Venetian glass donated in 2018 by the architect Ferruccio Franzoia. It includes around 900 Murano glass objects from the most important furnaces active in the lagoon in the 1920s, including Venini, MVM Cappellin & C, Salviati, Eos and numerous others. Here the lives and experiences of the greatest glass designers such as Vittorio Zecchin, Carlo Scarpa, Napoleone Martinuzzi, Fulvio Bianconi, Tapio Wirkkala are intertwined.