The neoclassical painter Francesco Caucig, a professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, was the artist from Gorizia who enjoyed the greatest fame among his contemporaries during the 19th century. His importance was well […]

Since the second half of the Nineteenth century, the magnificent colour prints produced in Japan had become the object of widespread and obsessive collecting. Count Guglielmo Coronini Cronberg himself did not escape this obsession a […]

Relations between humans and animals have always profoundly conditioned the history of society. If for the humble classes the animals were mainly tools of work and subsistence, for the sovereigns and the aristocracy some species, […]

The creation of the Coronini Park in the last decades of the 19th century takes place within a precise historical moment, when Gorizia saw a general flourishing of public and private parks and gardens, with […]

Fashion accessories in the Coroninis’ collections Far from being superfluous, fashion accessories have represented for centuries a real status symbol, revealing immediately not only the social class, but sometimes also the personality of people wearing them. […]

April the 15th 1913: Count Eduard Cassini, Chamberlain and Chancellor of Court Ceremonies for the Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II, died in Saint Petersburg. His huge holdings, which already included the legacy of deceased […]

Four centuries of female portraiture The exhibition at Coronini Palace shows the slow transformation of images of women–and images painted by women–over four centuries of art history. It consists of 40 artworks by great masters […]

Food and eating habits are a topical issue nowadays and are still the focus of interest and engagement of a large number of people. As a matter of fact, sharing a meal has always played […]

In un’epoca in cui l’uso generalizzato di computer, tablet e smartphone, la digitalizzazione dei testi e la scrittura vocale fanno apparire quasi obsoleta l’abitudine di scrivere a mano su un foglio di carta, può essere […]