Museum of Numismatics: with its 2160 pieces in gold, silver and bronze the coin collection of Banca Agricola Mantovana is the most complete collection in the world, along with that of italian king Vittorio Emanuele II, of coins and medals issued in Mantua in the period of the communes and the Gonzaga. The collection was started in 1986 on acquisition of the Milanese Casero collection and was considerably enlarged in 1993 by the acquisition of the prestigious collection of Mantuan count, Alessandro Magnagutti. The splendid state of conservation and exceptional rarity of many of the pieces make this collection an inestimable source of history, art and culture. Artists that made coins and medals for the Gonzaga family include masters such as Pisanello, Bartolo Talpa, Leone Leoni, Gaspare Molo and Gian Cristoforo Romano.
Art Gallery: Twentieth century Matan art is well represented in the over 100 works housed in the Art Gallery of the Fondazione Bam in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II. Besides the one at the Camera di Commercio the collection is the only showcase for Mantuan art open to the pubblic. Most of the collection is made up of paintings representing the whole of the twentieth century including works by Domenico Presenti, Vindizio Nodari Presenti, Giuseppe Marusi and Ugo Celada, Mario Lomini, Mario Moretti Foggia, Giuseppe Guindani, Archimede Bresciani da Gazoldo, Girdano Scaravelli, Lanfranco, Umberto Baldassarri, Ermanno Pettigliani, Franco Bassignani, Renzo Margonari, Vanni Viviani and others. Worthy of mention is the corpus of some 15 sculptures by artists of the calibre of Gorni, Lanfranco, Nordera, Seguri and Nenci.
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