Casa Cavazzini houses the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum
Casa Colombatti-Cavazzini overlooks via Savorgnana and via Cavour, opposite Udine's Town Hall. The renovation works started in 2004 to the design of the internationally renowned architect Gae Aulenti.
Casa Cavazzini extends over 3500 square metres on three floors, connected to each other by two lifts and two staircases, one specifically built and one dating back to the nineteenth century. The renovation works aimed at enhancing two areas, leaving them on view, which provided interesting surprises from the archaeological and artistic point of view: a beautiful 16th-century "Venetian-style" basin-cistern and a large collection of proto-historic earthenware that can be dated back to the first iron age (second half of the 8th century B.C.), which is the oldest find in the site of Casa Cavazzini.
The renovation of Casa Cavazzini brought to light wonderful frescoes by Afro Basaldella and other extraordinary frescoes dating back to the second half of the fourteenth century depicting secular subjects and important for the study of Gothic painting in Friuli.
Today Casa Cavazzini houses the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, whose collection is located on the first and second floor and includes:
- the Astaldi Collection, donated to Udine's Civici Musei (Municipal Museums) in 1982 by Maria Luisa and Sante Astaldi: masterpieces by internationally renowned artists like De Chirico, Savinio, De Pisis, Carrà and Santomaso
- the FRIAM Collection<\/b>: 113 works by important names of American contemporary history of art, like Willem De Kooning, Carl Andre and Frank Stella, which were donated by the artists themselves on the occasion of the earthquake that hit Friuli in 1976
- the works by the brothers Dino, Mirko and Afro Basaldella<\/b>, on display next to the main apartment, where Dante Cavazzini in 1938, commissioned an important cycle of tempera wall paintings to the young Afro and Mirko Basaldella and Corrado Cagli.
The museum houses temporary exhibitions as well.
Free with FVG Card
Opening hours
From Tuesday, to Sunday: from 10.00 am to 6 pm
Closed on Mondays
Via Cavour, 14
33100 Udine
Tel: +39 0432 1273772
E-mail: biglietterie.civicimusei@comune.udine.it
Venzone - Udine