Opened in 1989 in the 17thcentury Palazzo Volpi, the Pinacoteca gallery preserves the city’s heritage paintings and sculptures.
The collection, with works from the Middle Ages through to the contemporary, was established by way of bequests, donations, and purchases, and documents the art of the area. It starts with religious works and goes on to take in portraiture, landscape, genre painting, and twentieth-century studies relating to futurism, rationalism and design works.
The core of the collection includes the collection of portraits of Illustrious Men of Paolo Giovio dating from the 16th century, drawings by the Futurist architect Antonio Sant’Elia, and some of the most significant works of the Como Group, the abstractionists of the 20th century.
