Name of Object:

Ceramic panel with eight azulejos [tiles] (from the Odescalchi collection)

Name in original language:

Pannello ceramico con otto azulejos (dalla collezione Odescalchi)

Location:

Rome, Italy

Holding Institution:

Museo Artistico Industriale, National Gallery of Ancient Art in Palazzo Barberini

 About MIBACT | Collection of former Museum of Industrial Art (M.A.I.), Rome

Holding Institution (original language):

Museo Artistico Industriale presso la Galleria nazionale d’arte antica in Palazzo Barberini

Date of Object:

Beginning of the 15th century

Author:

Spanish manufacture (Andalusia)

Inventory Number:

inv. 3184

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Ceramic

Provenance:

Spain (Andalusia)

Description:

The Museum of Industrial Arts (M.A.I.) was established in 1872 in Rome as a collection of manufacts (glasses, majolica, sculptures, materials, photographs, metals, casts and other) from antiquity to 19th century, and as a training school for specialising artisans, as part of the process of revaluation of the so-called "minor arts". The collections of the M.A.I. included large samples of pottery, wooden objects, fabric, bronzes and ivories dating to Roman, Renaissance and Baroque times. The best part of this collection is on display at the National Gallery of Palazzo Barberini in Rome, while other pieces are housed in Castel Sant'Angelo and Palazzo Venezia. Within the series of the Hispanic-Moorish ceramics are some pottery with azulejos, bought by Prince Baldassarre Ladislao Odescalchi in 1880. The panel with eight azulejos dates from 15th and 16th centuries. It shows both geometric and floral decorations.

Type of Object

Tile panels

Citation of this web page:

Marina Minozzi "Ceramic panel with eight azulejos [tiles] (from the Odescalchi collection)" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;219;en

Prepared by: Marina Minozzi
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT2 077