The Galleria Centro Steccata represents a wonderful place where the best modern artists can show their creations to thousands of art lovers every year. Here sculptures, paintings, photographies are perfectly hosted in a fine and elegant atmosphere, enriched by new design elements. A real must for modern art passionates.
This gallery, located on the second floor of the Della Pilotta building, contains particularly important works by the Emilian school from the 15th and 16th Century, and from the Roman school by artists such as Giulio Romano and Sebastiano del Piombo. There are also Flemish and Emilian paintings from the 15th and 16th Centuries, Lombard painting from the seventeeth and 18th Centuries, Flemish painting from the 16th and 17th Centuries, Spanish, Flemish and Dutch portraits and paintings from the 19th Century amongst the collection.
This collection is dedicated to its founder, Giuseppe Stuard, who left a legacy of paintings, prints and furnishings that are still conserved today inside the art gallery next to the University of Parma, not far from the very central Piazza Garibaldi. Among the most important works are those relating to the Tuscan school of the 1300s to the 1400s (Daddi, Bicci di Lorenzo, Paolo di Giovanni Fei, Pietro di Giovanni Ambrosi), and those recognised as the work of Schedoni, Lanfranco, Fontebasso, Ricci, De Strobel.