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Culture
Literature
Pordenone has hosted every year, for more than a decade, the book festival pordenonelegge.it, which includes book stalls being placed all over the town center, as well as interviews with Italian and international authors and lectures by journalists and scholars.
Film
Pordenone has been the primary host to the Le Giornate del cinema muto, a festival of silent film, since 1981, excepting an eight-year lapse after the host theater, Cinema-Teatro Verdi, was being demolished and rebuilt. The nearby town of Sacile hosted the festival from 1999 to 2006.
Pordenone is also home to the FMK International Short Film Festival.
Theatre
Music
In the 1980s, Pordenone was the hub of the Italian punk rock scene.
Punk-rock band Prozac+ and alternative rock band Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti were formed in the 1990s in Pordenone. And in 2005 the Reggae band Mellow Mood was formed in Pordenone.
Since 1991, the town has hosted each summer the Pordenone Blues Festival, expanding its scope in 2010 encompassing the fields of performing arts, literature and visual arts. Notable guests over the years include Kool & the Gang, Steve Hackett, Rival Sons, Anastacia, Ronnie Jones and Ana Popović. Performers playing at this festival include artists based in Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Spain, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and other countries.
Museums and galleries
Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art – Diocese of Concordia-Pordenone
Located in the Pastoral Activities Centre, designed by Othmar Barth (1988), retains a remarkable artistic heritage from churches and religious buildings of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Concordia-Pordenone.
Town Art Museum
The museum is housed in the Palazzo Ricchieri, an important place to understand the art of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In it houses works by various painters, such as Pordenone, P. Amalteo, Varotari, Pietro della Vecchia, O. Politi and Michelangelo Grigoletti.
Civic Museum of Natural History Silvia Zenari
Archaeological Museum of Western Friuli
The museum, housed since 2006 in the ancient castle of the Torre of Pordenone, the last residence of Count Giuseppe di Ragogna, illustrates the archaeological heritage of the province of Pordenone. Of particular significance are the finds from the caves Pradis and pile-dwelling (or stilt house) of Palù di Livenza (UNESCO World Heritage Site – Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps).
Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art "Armando Pizzinato"
The museum is housed in a Venetian villa of the city park, once owned by industrialist Galvani. In its rooms it houses paintings by Mario Sironi, Renato Guttuso, Corrado Cagli, Alberto Savinio, Filippo De Pisis, Giuseppe Zigaina, Armando Pizzinato and many others.
Science Centre Scientific Imaginary of Torre
Gallery Sagittaria – Cultural Center House Antonio Zanussi
Newspapers
Two Italian daily newspapers have a local edition:
Messaggero Veneto – Giornale del Friuli
Il Gazzettino
Radio
Television
Tourisms
Pordenone is also the starting point for the province of Pordenone with its numerous sights. Extensive tourist information is provided by Pordenone Turismo.
Since 2022, the Pordenone Greeters offer free tours for guests of the city and province. The group is a member of the international Greeter network.
International relations
Twin towns — sister cities
Pordenone is twinned with:
Spittal an der Drau, Austria, since 1987
San Martín, Argentina, since 2003
Irkutsk, Russia, since 2005
Ōkawa, Japan
People
Odoric of Pordenone (1286–1331), Italian late-medieval Franciscan friar and missionary explorer
Il Pordenone (c. 1484–1539), byname of Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis, Italian mannerist painter
Hieronymus Rorarius (Pordenone 1485–1556), envoy for Charles V of Habsburg, and papal nuncio
Giovanni Maria Zaffoni (c. 1500 – after 1570), Italian painter of the Renaissance period
Pomponio Amalteo (1505–1588), Italian painter of the Venetian school
Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti (1801–1870), Italian painter, active in a Neoclassical style
Rudy Buttignol (born 1951), Canadian television network executive and entrepreneur
Davide Toffolo (born 1965, Pordenone), author of comics books
Raffaello D'Andrea (born 1967), robotics engineer
Sport
Stefano Lombardi (born 1976 in Pordenone), Italian footballer
Luca Rossetti (born 1976), Italian rally driver
Marzia Caravelli (born 1981), Italian hurdler. She represented Italy at two Olympics.
Daniele Molmentii (born 1984 in Pordenone), Italian slalom canoeist
Federico Gerardi (born 1987), Italian footballer
Reggie Jackson (born 1990), American professional basketball player
Nicola de Marco (born 1990), Italian racing driver
Alessia Trost (born 1993), Italian female Olympic high jumper
Ivan Provedel (born 1994), professional football goalkeeper
References
External links
Official website (in Italian)
Town Art Museum (in Italian)
Western Friuli Archaeological Museum (in Italian)
Town Science Museum (in Italian)
Castello di Torre
Pál Szinyei Merse (4 July 1845, Szinyeújfalu – 2 February 1920, Jernye) was a Hungarian painter and art educator.
Biography
He was born into a family of the old nobility who supported the Hungarian Revolution. Because of the political unrest, he attended private schools. In 1864, with the support of his parents, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he studied under Alexander von Wagner. Later, from 1867 to 1869, his teacher was Karl von Piloty. While there, he met Wilhelm Leibl, who introduced him to plein-air painting. After seeing a major art exhibition in 1869, he was anxious to get to work and left the Academy.
In 1870, at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War he moved to Genoa and was inclined to stay there, but returned in 1872 at the urging of his father. Once there, he set up a studio near one operated by his friend, Arnold Böcklin. The following year, he got married. Soon, he was largely occupied with financial matters and his painting suffered. After years of critical abuse and increasing family problems, he gave up painting for over a decade, beginning in 1882.
In 1887, his problems culminated in a divorce. For the next few years, he concentrated on raising his son Félix, who had remained with him. When Félix left home, his friends began a campaign to convince him that he should start painting again. In 1894, they organized a retrospective exhibition where one of his works was purchased by the Emperor Franz Joseph. For the rest of his life, he painted incessantly, although he was still very critical of himself and produced fewer paintings per year than before.
In 1896, he was elected to the Diet of Hungary, where he advocated for major reforms in art education. He then began to exhibit widely, in Paris, St.Louis, Berlin and Rome, among other places. In 1902, he went blind in one eye, but continued to work at the same pace. In 1905, he became President of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. He held that office until his death, encouraging young artists and supporting the art colony in Nagybánya.
In 1912, the Ernst Museum organized the largest exhibition of his works up to that time and he was awarded the small cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary. Later, the Museum of Fine Arts set aside a room for his paintings. After his death, a group of his friends created the "Szinyei Merse Society" to continue his work of discovering and promoting new, young artists.
Selected paintings
References
Further reading
Szinyei Merse, edited by Gabriella Szvboda Dombánszky, Kossuth Publishing (2006)
External links
"The Lady in Violet" @ Száz Szép Kép
Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades, she became the best documented female painter of the Dutch Golden Age.