A visitor standing before a dense salon hang of gilt-framed paintings on a dark green wall
Museo Verraldi · Forlì · founded 1924

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Four thousand one hundred works in twelve rooms, every one of them hung on the same line, 152 centimetres from the floor. Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00 to 18.00. Thursday until nine.

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A bronze head cast with a fragmented, broken surface across the brow
Pietro MasenghiTesta frammentata1971 · cast bronze · 38 cm · inv. 1974.055 · Sala IV
A gold-ground mosaic showing two robed donors in procession
Workshop of the Via SerpiApse fragment with two donorsc. 540 · glass tesserae, gold leaf · 310 × 220 cm · inv. 1927.001
152 cm

The building is one long enfilade. Twelve rooms, read in order, 1,200 years from the apse fragment to the last canvas bought in March. This is what is open as of this morning.

IThe gold ground
IIPanel and tempera
IIIBranca bequest
IVTerracotta, bronze
VDrawings, by request
VITextiles, 50 lux
VIIMajolica
VIIIThe long corridor
IXScarabelli
XScarabelli
XIWorks on paper
XIIClosed, rewiring
Eleven of twelve open · last entry 17.15 · lift to every floor

The wall this month

Six works, printed here at something close to their real relative size. The small one is small. Come and stand in front of it.

A woven tapestry crowded with court figures around a central portrait
Unknown, FlemishArazzo del contec. 1620 · wool and silk · 340 × 520 cm · inv. 1934.088 · Sala VIShown at 50 lux. Your eyes need four minutes.
Painted portrait of a woman in a black dress holding an open book
Alma VitturiDonna con libro chiuso1931 · oil on canvas · 74 × 58 cm · inv. 1962.114 · Sala III
Painted portrait of a bearded man in dark clothing against a black ground
Teodoro BrancaIl collezionista1908 · oil on panel · 61 × 48 cm · inv. 1931.007 · Sala III
A tin-glazed earthenware jug painted with a crest in blue and ochre
Bottega di FaenzaBoccale con stemma1556 · tin-glazed earthenware · 31 cm · inv. 1930.142
Black-figure pottery standing on a dark plinth under a case light
Attic workshopCratere a figure nere520 — 500 BC · terracotta · 41 cm · inv. 1929.330
A dark abstract painting built from heavy blue and orange impasto
Noemi ScarabelliTaglio XVII1964 · oil and sand on board · 120 × 120 cm · inv. 1989.402
All 4,100 works
A long dark gallery corridor with canvases lit one after another down both walls
Acquisitions

A hundred and two years of saying yes, slowly

A marble head wearing a helmet, lit from one side in a darkened room
inv. 1951.300 · bought at auction, Cesena
A close view of floral needlepoint in magenta, green and blue wool
inv. 1977.019 · gift of the Rolfi family
The carved and gilded corner of an ornate picture frame
inv. 2024.004 · bought with the Verraldi fund
1924 — 2026
2026Agnese Rolfi, Senza titolo (blu)Bought, Verraldi fund
2024Fourteen working drawings, Scarabelli studioGift of the artist's estate
2019Dusan Krall, Profilo di AgneseBequest, M. Loreti
1951Head of a helmeted goddess, Roman after a Greek originalBought at auction, Cesena
1927Apse fragment with two donors, Via Serpi digTransferred, Soprintendenza

Walk it in forty minutes

A painted portrait of a woman in a linen cap under an old, yellowed varnishThe same portrait after cleaning, the linen white and the ground cool again
Teodoro Branca · Ritratto di donna in cuffia · 1911 · inv. 1931.011. Left 2023, right March. Move your pointer across.
A gloved hand rolling a cotton swab across the surface of a painting
Swab test, 14 passes, Sala III studio

Nineteen months on one panel

The varnish on Branca’s Ritratto di donna in cuffia had gone the colour of weak tea. Our conservator took it off a square centimetre at a time with cotton and isopropanol, stopping twice because the glaze underneath was moving. It went back on the wall in Sala III on 3 March, in the same position, at the same height.

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A barrel-vaulted gallery receding into the distance with visitors walking its length

The Monday letter

One email on the first Monday of the month: what came off the wall, what went on, and which rooms are shut. No campaigns, no countdowns.