Fondazione Paolo and Carolina Zani

The Foundation and the visit route between the House Museum and the garden

The Paolo and Carolina Zani Foundation for Art and Culture welcomes visitors on a tour of the Casa Museo and its garden, located in Cellatica, in the Franciacorta region. Named after entrepreneur Paolo Zani and his daughter Carolina, the Foundation was established with the primary purpose of preserving, protecting, and promoting the art collection of the Casa Museo Zani and its garden.

The House Museum collection: works, authors and furnishings

The House Museum’s prestigious collection comprises over 1,250 works, including paintings, sculptures, applied art objects, and furnishings. Among the masterpieces are works by Canaletto, Tiepolo, Guardi, Longhi, and Boucher, alongside precious Baroque and Rococo furnishings, primarily French and Venetian, and extraordinary applied art objects from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The absolute masterpieces: Maggiolini and the semiprecious stone table

Absolute masterpieces are: the pair of commodes from 1789 by Giuseppe Maggiolini with inlays by Andrea Appiani and the octagonal table in semiprecious stones created between the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century in the Galleria dei Lavori in Florence.

The garden as an open-air museum

The House Museum’s garden was conceived as a natural complement to the collection, a true open-air museum where sculptures, vases, fountains, and architectural elements interact with select tree species and exquisite blooms, arranged according to a unique and stylistically coherent design.