Description
The Emilio Greco Museum gathers the drawings and prints of the Catania-born sculptor Emilio Greco, dominated by the female nude, on an entire floor of Palazzo Gravina Cruyllas, in the center of Catania: the same palace as Vincenzo Bellini's birthplace.
The rooms display 150 lithographs and etchings dated from 1955 to 1992, almost all donated by the artist to his city. Look out for the series of 25 Commiati (Farewells), on the tormented parting of man and woman, and the figures of myth: Nausicaa, Medea, Sappho, the return of Ulysses.
In the entrance hall you can still see the vault of the outer gallery of the Roman theater, on top of which the palace was built. Inside there is also a small private 18th-century chapel of the Gravina Cruyllas family. Greco opened the museum in person in 1994.
The rooms display 150 lithographs and etchings dated from 1955 to 1992, almost all donated by the artist to his city. Look out for the series of 25 Commiati (Farewells), on the tormented parting of man and woman, and the figures of myth: Nausicaa, Medea, Sappho, the return of Ulysses.
In the entrance hall you can still see the vault of the outer gallery of the Roman theater, on top of which the palace was built. Inside there is also a small private 18th-century chapel of the Gravina Cruyllas family. Greco opened the museum in person in 1994.