Are you interested in Italian art and painting? How about making the most of your stay in Corsica and your holidays in Ajaccio to visit the Fesch museum, Palace of Fine Arts in Ajaccio to admire the second most important collection of Italian paintings in France?
With Italian paintings dating from the 14th to the 18th century and works by Boticelli, TItien, Michelangelo and others, the Fesch museum in Ajaccio and its collections will amaze young and old!
In Ajaccio
It is in the heart of the
Palais Fesch, in the pedestrian street of the same name that the
Fesch museum is located, the
Palace of Fine Arts in Ajaccio.
Completely renovated to provide greater comfort to visitors, the Fesch museum now benefits from the
'Musée de France' label, an appellation closely correlated with its growing reputation. And for good reason, after the
Louvre museum in Paris, the
Fesch museum, Palace of Fine Arts houses the
second most important collection of Italian paintings.
On the program, through the different rooms available to visitors:
Corsican painters, the
Napoleonic collection bringing together various souvenirs (earthenware, pipes, statuettes, portraits) bearing the image of the
imperial family and of course, Italian painting bringing together all
Italian schools between the 14th and 18th centuries.
Among the paintings exhibited in the
Fesch museum, it is important to mention
Boticelli, Titien, Michelangelo and many others.
The wealth of
Ajaccio’s Palace of Fine Arts is above all the work of
Cardinal Joseph Fesch. The latter was the maternal
uncle of Napoleon, the Archbishop of Lyon but above all a great lover of art and an enlightened patron.
Eager to build an Institute of Sciences and Arts
in Ajaccio, he bequeathed to the city a thousand paintings belonging to his collection.
Leaving the
Fesch Museum, visitors can take a tour of the south wing of the
museum to visit the
imperial chapel where
Cardinal Fesch, Napoleon's uncle, and many other members of the
imperial family rest.
On the north side, it is the
heritage library and its 50,000 works, including more than 8,000 bequeathed once again by Cardinal Fesch, which welcomes the curious.