Bologna - National Picture Gallery

(Local Name: Pinacoteca Nazionale) To the north of the university in Bologna, in Via delle Belle Arti (No. 56), is a former Jesuit college which now houses the National Picture Gallery (Pinacoteca Nazionale), with some of the best works of Bolognese painters of the 14th-18th centuries, the 17th century being particularly well represented. Outstanding among other works are a "Madonna with Saints" by the Ferrarese artist Francesco del Cossa, one of his finest works, and a masterpiece by Raphael, "St Cecilia"; there are also works by Guido Reni, Guercino, Perugino, Vasari and Carracci, as well as pictures by Venetian masters, including Tintoretto, Palma il Giovane, Cima da Congliano and Vivarini.