Pinacoteca Giovanni Morscio

About the museum

The gallery was founded in 1970, when the painter Giovanni Morscio gave the community of Dolceacqua his own works together with a collection of paintings and watercolours by French and Italian figurative artists. Morscio, born in Dolceacqua in 1887 into a family of flower growers and trained as a painter and decorator in Sanremo, devoted himself above all to flowers and still lifes.

From the 1980s the municipality expanded the collection with works by local artists such as Marcello Cammi and Mario Raimondo, known as “Barbadirame”. The collection, initially housed in the old town hall, was moved to the restored Palazzo Doria Garoscio, donated by Luigina Garoscio, a wealthy woman from Dolceacqua who had emigrated to Argentina.

The museum also recalls the appeal that Dolceacqua held for painters travelling along the Ligurian coast, among them Turner, Corot and Monet.

Highlights

• Works by Giovanni Morscio, mainly flowers and still lifes
• Paintings and watercolours by French and Italian figurative artists
• Works by Marcello Cammi and Mario Raimondo “Barbadirame”
• Housed in the restored Palazzo Doria Garoscio
• Memory of the painters who travelled to Dolceacqua

Founded

1970

Operated by

Comune di Dolceacqua

Visitors per year

approx. 800

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