Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

The National Art Gallery of Bologna (Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna) is a museum in Bologna, Italy. It is located in the former Saint Ignatius Jesuit novitiate of the city's University district, and inside the same building that houses the Academy of Fine Arts. The museum offers a wide collection of Emilian paintings from the 13th to the 18th century and other fundamental works by artists who were in some way related to the city. History Accademia Clementina According to 18th-century Italian art historian Luigi Crespi , it was cardinal Prospero Lambertini , who would later become Pope Benedict XIV , the one who planned a Gallery for altarpieces in the churches of the city. Saint George and the Dragon by Vitale da Bologna . The gallery's first nucleus of works came from the acquisition in 1762 by monsignor Francesco Zambeccari of eight early 15th-century altarpieces, salvaged from the demolition of Saint Mary Magdalene's church. Bought for the Istituto delle Scienze , the art pieces were to be preserved by.