| Castle of Udine and Civic Museums
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Related links:
- Duomo of Udine
- Udine
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Officially opened in
1866 when the city was still
under Austro-Hungarian rule, the
Civic Museums have been housed
in the Castle since 1906, in the
same place that had been the
residence of the Aquileia Patriarchs
and of the Venetian governor of the
Friuli Homeland. The different sections
contain large collections concerning the
history, culture and art of not only Friuli.
As well as displaying finds from different
excavation sites in Friuli, the Archaeological
Museum also contains a remarkable
collection of earthenware and Greek vases
from southern Italy. The Ancient Art Gallery
contains paintings from the 14th to the 19th centuries,
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including works by local masters
but also by Carpaccio, Caravaggio, Tiepolo,
and a notable series of Italian and German
wooden sculptures. In the Museum of
Photography are exceptional documents
marking the earliest steps in photography and
a collection of great photographers' works
mainly from Friuli, while in the Cabinet
of Drawings and Prints the collection of
printings of Udine is outstanding. The
Modern Art Gallery (now housed at
Palamostre) contains a rich collection of
Friulian art from the late 1800s to the 1970s
(with several works by brothers Dino, Afro
and Mirko Basaldella) and, in the Astaldi
Collection, almost two hundred works by
great Italian 19th-century artists, from De
Chirico to Savinio, from Sironi to Rosai,
Morandi, Guttuso, Campigli and others.
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It is not certain that the name Udine is of
pre-Roman origin, as researchers support,
deriving from a word meaning 'mamma'
and then metaphorically 'hill'. The fact is,
however, that from the hill in the middle
of the city (which according to a
legend was formed with the earth
carried in Attila's soldiers'
helmets since the king, after
having sacked Aquileia, wanted to see
it on fire) it is possible to sweep in
one look the whole of Friuli, from...go
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