Eleventh Room

it collects pittoriche and scultoree works of the ' 600 but also artistic exemplary of silvervare, embroiderys and carving on marble. The beautifulst decorations and the jobs on marble, historically most flourishing the messinese handicraft can be admired to the Regional Museum of Messina; we find exemplary of coming from marmoree tarsie from the Church of Saint Gregorio who in their kind first was executed in Sicily. The embroiderys on valuable silk that gave to reputation and wealth to the city characterize an historical period in which Messina it was pervasa from a strong spirit of cultural and economic rebirth.

 

Tarsie marmoree policrome

Maestranze messinesi - XVII century

Marble and hard stones policrome

Origin: Church of Saint Gregorio

 

Numerous the pittoriche works of insigni masters of that period, bases to think next to the Junket, the Maroli, the Priests, the Alberti who gave a great contribution to the cultural formation of the city in XVII the century.

Antonino Barbalonga Alberti

1601 - 1649

Giovan Batiste Junket

1603 - 1674

Mercy

Oil on Burlap - cm. 265 x 152

Natività of the Vergine

Oil on Burlap - cm. 290 x 205

graphical elaboration Myth

Madonna of the Letter

MATTIA PRETI

1613 - 1699

Placed Christ

Oil on Burlap - cm. 272 x 170

Oil on Burlap - cm. 95 x 107

Said the Calabrian Cavalier it was formed on caravaggeschi masters and to Naples with the Battistello it executed its first works in perfect adhesion to "the tenebrous" caravaggismo.

It was moved In Emilia and here it endured the infuence of the Guercino and the Lanfranco. To Venice it was found to contact with the Tintoretto and with the Veronese and its style, transforming itself, it was defined compiutamente becoming more dynamic, careful to take advantage of the effects in backlighting and to give prominence to the pure pathetic attitudes.

It was settled down, finally, to Malta where it executed a burlap series and it frescoes until death from 1661 in 1699.

Origin: Saint Church Taken off Giovanni

Origin: Civic Museum Peloritano

 

Faith and Hope - Acquasantiera

Ignoto

Marble h. 168 cm. - Marble h. 74 cm.

Origin: Church of the Catalans - S. Church Francisco

 

Domenico Maroli (1612-1676)

Loth and the daughters

Oil on burlap, cm 212 x 263

Origin: Civic Museum Peloritano