Museo Mandralisca in Cefalù
Antonello da Messina: Portrait of an unknown man (1465)
Museo Mandralisca: Ritratto di un Uomo Ignoto (Portrait of an unknown man) by Antonello da Messina, painted in 1465. This is the museum's jewel.
It is the items collected by baron Enrico Piraino di Mandralisca (1809-1864) that is exhibited in the museum.
Tuna fish salesman (Mandralisca Museum, Cefalù).
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Greek vase.
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Greek vase (480-470 BC) in the Mandralisca Museum. Centaurs.
Photo: Per-Erik Skramstad / Wonders of Sicily
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Coin from Selinunte (Museo Mandralisca, Cefalù)
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Small heads.
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Not far from the old fishermen's houses in Cefalù you will find the Museo Mandralisca, a museum with a wide variety of more or less important objects.
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Cefalù certainly was a beautiful city even in the mid 1800's. Here a detail of a painting hanging in the Museo Mandralisca in Cefalù. It was painted by Francesco Tenuta Bevelacqua (1814-1858).
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Woman with a masculine face (Museo Mandralisca, Cefalù)
Woman with a masculine face. Painting in Museo Mandralisca, Cefalù.
A beaver? Stuffed animals are also part of the museum.
Photo: Per-Erik Skramstad / Wonders of Sicily
Photo: Per-Erik Skramstad / Wonders of Sicily
Photo: Per-Erik Skramstad / Wonders of Sicily
The Virgin and Child.
Photo: Per-Erik Skramstad / Wonders of Sicily
Just like Norman Bates in Hitchcock's film Psycho, the baron Enrico Piraino di Mandralisca liked to collect stuffed birds.
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