Revoltella Museum

place Trieste

years 1992 – 2001

client Municipality of Trieste

Built in 1872 at the Baron Pasquale de Rivoltella behest and legacy (1795-1869), and designed by the arch. F. Hitzig (1811 – 1881), the Museum Revoltella is one of the most important buildings of the nineteenth century, and lived in the past a series of transformations.

It dates back to the late ’60s the award of the work architect. C. Scarpa (1906 – 1978), and after his death and until 1989 the architect. F. Vattolo, when the City Council decided to add a consolidation, restoration and redevelopment  project to the original plan.

The direction work is entrusted to the arch. G. P. Bartoli until 1991.

In subsequent years and until 2001, the City Council starts important and necessary restoration works: these concerned:

• the three facades on Piazza Venezia, Via Cadorna and Via Diaz
• a part of the interiors of the old bourgeois residence, with the recovery of wooden floors and stucco marble, wall covering marmorino and paper or cloth, decorated ceilings and artistic elements such as statues, fireplaces, chandeliers, original furniture.

project

  arch. G. P. Bartoli

• Civic Museum Sartorio
• All
• Watchmaker’s Museum