{"id":2935,"date":"2021-10-11T09:11:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/uncategorized\/the-agostino-pepoli-regional-museum\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:11:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:11:01","slug":"the-agostino-pepoli-regional-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/uncategorized\/the-agostino-pepoli-regional-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Agostino Pepoli\u2019 Regional Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018<strong>Agostino Pepoli\u2019 Regional Museum<\/strong>\u00a0is one the city\u2019s most prestigious institution and is located in the former convent of the Carmelite Fathers (dating back to the 14th century) rising next to the <em>Madonna di Trapani<\/em> Sanctuary.\u00a0 It is one of the most emblematic museums of applied arts, characterized by its collection of Trapani <strong>coral works<\/strong> that once made the city famous, as well as <strong>silver<\/strong>, <strong>majolica <\/strong>and 17th\/18th-century <strong>nativity sculptures made of coral<\/strong>, <strong>marine materials<\/strong> and <strong>papier-mach\u00e9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Named after its founder, Count Agostino Pepoli, who founded it between 1906 and 1909, it also collects the following significant works:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sculptures<\/strong> including a <em><strong>St. James<\/strong><\/em>, a masterpiece by Antonello Gagini (1522) and statues of the Gagini school;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paintings<\/strong>, widely representing artistic culture in Western Sicily from the 13th to the 19th centuries: of particular significance a precious polyptych of the early 15th century attributed to an unknown painter named simply \u2018Master of the Trapani Polyptych\u2019 and a painting depicting St. Francis receiving the stigmata, attributed to Titian;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jewels<\/strong> belonging to the treasure of the Madonna di Trapani;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vestments<\/strong> and antique clothing;<\/li>\n<li><strong>majolica<\/strong>, including the floors depicting fishing scenes;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Relics<\/strong> of the Risorgimento, witnessing to the province\u2019s participation in the Unification of Italy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Agostino Pepoli\u2019 Regional Museum\u00a0is one the city\u2019s most prestigious institution and is located in the former convent of the Carmelite Fathers (dating back to the 14th century) rising next to the Madonna di Trapani Sanctuary.\u00a0 It is one of the most emblematic museums of applied arts, characterized by its collection of Trapani coral works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[130],"tags":[167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ab6.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}