Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande | |
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General information | |
Location | Bologna, Italy |
The Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande is a Baroque style palace on Via Castiglione 7 in central Bologna. In 2015, it served as a public art gallery for late-Baroque art.
The palace was built in the mid-1600s by designs by Francesco Albertoni and Giuseppe Antonio Torri, and commissioned by Count Odoardo Pepoli of the aristocratic Pepoli family. The rooms are decorated with frescoes:
The museum's collection arise from the painting collection of the Quadreria Zambeccari, once located in Palazzo Zambeccari, augmented by other collections. Among the painters in the collection are Crespi, Ludovico Carracci, Guercino, Marcantonio Franceschini, Donato Creti, Titian, Giovanni Battista Langetti, Bernardo Strozzi, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and Palma il Giovane. The collection has Flemish and Byzantine works.