The Picture Gallery is located a few minutes from the Two Towers, inside the former Jesuit Novitiate of Saint Ignatius, built in the second half of the 1600s to welcome young people eager to enter the Society of Jesus.
In addition to the Picture Gallery, the Palace also houses the Academy of Fine Arts and the Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage. The exhibition is divided into sections divided historically by schools and the itinerary retraces the works of authors dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries (Vitale di Bologna, etc.).), the period of the Renaissance (Raphael, Perugino, Tintoretto, etc.), Mannerism (Giorgio Vasari, Bartolomeo Cesi, etc.), the Baroque Age (the Carracci, Guercino, etc.) to arrive finally to the Hall of seventeenth-century paintings of large format.
