Draft:Pinacoteca e museo civico di Volterra

The Pinacoteca e Museo Civico di Volterra (Picture Gallery and Civic Museum of Volterra) is located in the Palazzo Minucci-Solaini on via de' Sarti #1 in the town of Volterra, province of Pisa, region of Tuscany, Italy.

History and description
The core of the collection was assembled in the second half of the 19th-century by the local superintendent of art and art historian, Corrado Ricci. He assembled local works, many from suppressed churches and monasteries, for public display. Initially the collection was displayed in the Palazzo dei Priori, with an inauguration of the displays in 1905. The Gallery was closed during the second world war until 1948.

In 1981, a display of works at the Palazzo Minucci-Solaini, induced the authorities to create a new museum at this site, inaugurated in 1982. This palazzo was built in late-1400s, with the design traditionally attributed to Antonio da San Gallo il Vecchio.

Collections
Among the works in the museum
 * Volterra Deposition by Rosso Fiorentino, is considered the mannerist painter's masterpiece
 * Annunciation (1491) and Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints (1491) by Luca Signorelli
 * Madonna of the Rose, Enthroned Madonna and Child and Saints and Saint Nicola da Tolentino and Peter by Taddeo di Bartolo
 * Cristo in Pietà by Francesco di Neri da Volterra
 * Madonna and Child by Jacopo di Michele
 * Madonna (called of the long neck) by Stefano di Antonio di Vanni
 * St Sebastian between saints Bartholomew and Nicola by Neri di Bicci
 * Birth in the Manger and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin by Benvenuto di Giovanni
 * Christ in Glory with Four Saints and a Donor by Domenico Ghirlandaio
 * Adoration of the Shepherds e Mourning over dead Christ by Pieter de Witte
 * Birth of the Virgin by Donato Mascagni
 * Annunciation, Immaculate Conception and Mourning over dead Christ del Pomarancio

Bibliograpy

 * Derived from Italian wikipedia entry
 * Renato Bacci,  La Pinacoteca e il Museo di Arte Sacra  Arti Grafiche C.G., Milano 1997
 * Antonio Paolucci, La pinacoteca di Volterra, 1989