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The Collection was set up in Via Università 32, in the former Tridentine Seminary, a beautiful eighteenth-century building built by the Piedmontese military architect Count Saverio Belgrano di Famolasco. It was donated in 1981 to the University of Cagliari by the scholar Luigi Piloni. In addition to the numerous works displayed on the walls and windows, other pieces that could not be displayed due to the lack of adequate space are preserved in the drawers. However, they can be examined on request by scholars.
The exhibition is divided into seven rooms.
Room 1: effigies of famous people for Sardinia, texts by Piloni.
Room 2: paintings, including a panel by Michele Cavaro (Santa Chiara) and one by Antioco Mainas (Burial of Christ), both from the 16th century.
Room 3: Tempera by Philippine Della Marmora.
Room 4: works by the most illustrious Sardinian painters of the 20th century (A. Ballero, C. Contini, G. Biasi, B. Palazzi, M. Sironi, A. Cao, F. Figari, F. Melis Marini, M. Delitala, C. Floris, P. A. Manca, G. Ciusa Romagna, A. Sassu, M. Manca); among the non-Sardinian Sciuti and Locatelli.
Room 5: traditional Sardinian silverware for clothing, 18th-19th century rosaries, necklaces, pendants, reliquaries, spuligadentes, scissors, ganceras, buttons, amulets.
Room 6: collection of 140 geographical maps from the 16th to the 19th century, precious for studies of Sardinian cartography; 32 very valuable “Coberibancus”, for the most part Campidanesi (mid-18th century - first decades of the 20th century); a “tapinu 'e mortu”, from Orgosolo - Mamoiada, used to lay the bodies there; festive “berulas” (early '900), Campidanesi “mantas”; 190, including tempera, watercolors, lithographs and drawings of Sardinian costumes 19th century; copper engraving from the late 17th century.
Room 7:136 views of Sardinia, including 12 perspective views of the main lighthouses of the provinces of Cagliari and Sassari, taken from the Album of Italian Lighthouses (1873).
Why it is important to visit it
The collection of geographical maps is of particular importance, but it is also worth a visit for Sardinian paintings from the 16th to the 20th century.
Structure category: museum, gallery and/or collection
Content type:
Arts
Usability: Open
Province: Cagliari
Common: Cagliari
Macro Territorial Area: South Sardinia
POSTAL CODE: 09124
Address: via Università, 32
Telephone: +39 070 6752112 +39 335 1364169
E-mail: collezionepiloni@unica.it aruggeri@amm.unica.it
Website: web.unica.it/unica/it/ateneo_s03_ss07.page?contentId=STR4613
Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Collezione-Sarda-Luigi-Piloni/100041631441056
Information on tickets and access: The collection can currently be visited by reservation only, exclusively on Monday and Friday mornings, and on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons on the working days of the Cagliari university.
Access mode: Free
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