Fagnani Pani Palace from the sixteenth-seventeenth century in the heart of the historic center of Rimini houses collections of paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, books, furniture, art objects and antique embroidery.
The interesting unity and variety of the heritage, its wealth is due to the relationships between an ancient family of Lombard origin, settled in Rimini in the early fifteenth century, with some families of the city, Emilia Romagna and Marche.
Vincenzo Tommaso Pani was theologian of the Apostolic Palace during the pontificate of Pius VI; Luigi Pani, from which the street on which the building overlooks takes its name, was a distinguished figure in the revolutionary and Risorgimento epochs of Romagna.
The documents here conserved are enriched in the nineteenth century with the arrival in the Fagnani house of the daughter of the great sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini, who left an important collection, including two original in plaster, Cleobi and Bitone, the portrait in the guise of praying of Teresina Balbi Senarega, numerous paintings, memorabilia, prints and autographed books.
The picture gallery of the building includes works by Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Gaetano Gandolfi, Hyppolite Cassas, Guglielmo Ciardi, Xavier Fabre, Giuseppe Bezzuoli, Nicola Levoli, Mosè Bianchi, Alberto Bianchi, prints by Potrelle, Fournier, Toschi, Calamatta, Ingres, engravings by Wilkie of the Royal English printing house.
There is also present a collection of 3500 photographs with a review of typologies and techniques from the daguerreotype and tintype to the first Kodak photos of the beginning of the century.
Among the highly represented subjects, the Florentine entourage of the Bartolini family and the ancient families of the city of Rimini; there is also an ancient library, and a collection of lace and embroidery from the Anita Sangiorgi School of Tapestries, founded in Rimini in 1897.