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MUSEO VILLA COLLOREDO MEIS
Villa Colloredo Mels takes its name from the Colloredo family from Friuli, who arrived in the Marche region in the 17th century, but was already the residence of the noble Flamini family as read in "Colloredo, a family and a castle in European history" by Gian Camillo Custoza: "With marriage between Fabio di Colloredo and Maria Teresa Flaminj in 1728, the Flaminj villa of Recanati was part of the Colloredo heritage for over two centuries until Rodolfo (1879-1961) who left it as a legacy to the House of Loreto together with the farm. In 1953 he had donated the numismatic collection, the armory and six paintings depicting Colloredo characters to the Civic museums of Udine". The building has a medieval structure and took on the appearance of Palace in the late 1500s, becoming the subject of continuous transformations in the following centuries until it obtained the current appearance in the neoclassical age. Since 1998, the building has been housing the civic museums of Recanati, divided into various sections with testimonies documenting the history and art of Recanati from prehistory to the present day. The archaeological section allows to know the organization of a Neolithic community that lived in this area and that disappeared during the Iron Age. The art gallery, which preserves masterpieces of the 14th and 15th centuries as the tables of Pietro Domenico of Montepulciano and Ludovico of Siena, is famous above all for the corpus of extraordinary works by the Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto (1490-1556). It goes from one of his juvenile masterpieces like the San Domenico Polyptych (1508) to the fascinating Transfiguration, influenced by Raphael but of total anticlassic setting, ending with the unforgettable Annunciation, the Master's absolute masterpiece. The section of Modern Painting includes a collection of works by local artists such as the engraver Giacomo Braccialarghe and the restorer and art critic Biagio Biagetti.