Museum
Collezioni Comunali d'Arte
Frescoed former cardinal-legate rooms filled with Bolognese painting, lace, and decorative art.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Collezioni Comunali d'Arte in Bologna follows a piece of lace held in one of its frescoed rooms, once part of the cardinal legates' apartments in Palazzo d'Accursio. It traces the workshop that made it, Aemilia Ars, founded in eighteen ninety-eight by Countess Lina Bianconcini Cavazza to give Bolognese women a way to earn wages from skilled needlework at home. You'll hear how an old, undervalued craft was reshaped into something new. Best heard standing close to the case, looking at the thread itself.
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