Palazzo Sturm - Museo della Ceramica e Museo della Stampa Remondini

Palazzo Sturm brings Bassano del Grappa's ceramic and print collections together in an eighteenth-century residence above the Brenta. The two museums connect artistic production with the commercial history of the town.

Why it matters

The Remondini printing firm developed an extensive international trade between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Its books, popular prints and decorated papers reveal how images circulated far beyond the place where they were made. The ceramics collection preserves another important local manufacturing tradition, including Antonibon production.

What to notice

Woodcuts, engravings and optical views show different techniques and uses of printed images. The ceramic holdings range from the sixteenth century onward and include work by several Italian manufacturers. Within the palace, Giorgio Anselmi's mythological and allegorical decoration of 1765 recalls the commercial ambitions of the original Ferrari patrons.

Context and history

Vincenzo Ferrari commissioned the palace in the mid-eighteenth century to a design by Daniello Bernardi. Later enlargement altered its upper levels and loggia. Giovanni Battista Sturm von Hirschfeld donated the building to the city in 1943. The ceramics collection moved here in 1992, followed by the Remondini museum in 2007.