Cultural Heritage
Intesa Sanpaolo and cultural promotion

Cultural projects, part of Intesa Sanpaolo's interest and involvement in the communities in which it operates, are a tangible way of guaranteeing the active participation of the Institute in Italian civil society and contributing to the latter's cultural, social and economic development.

"Civic responsibility" being the main objective of its cultural and social policies, the Bank's activities in the cultural sphere are carried out through a combination of projects planned and undertaken by the Institute - with independent goals - and partnerships to support and promote important educational and scientific institutions.


Intesa Sanpaolo has supported and directly managed three main types of interventions:

support for the preservation and enhancement of the national cultural heritage;
conservation and historical/critical studies of its own art collections, for public enjoyment;
conservation and enhancement of its own buildings of significant artistic and architectural value
In conclusion, the Bank's principal social policy goals - the promotion and management of initiatives to encourage growth and knowledge - can be discerned in this search to blend institutional operations with the production of valuable and useful projects for the community.
Le Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari
The baroque residence of the Leoni Montanari family in Vicenza transformed into Galleries of the same name, allowing visitors to enjoy its treasures: collections of 18th Century Veneto paintings, with works by Pietro Longhi, Canaletto, Luca Carlevarijs and Francesco Guardi, and of Russian icons dating from the 13th to the 19th Century, plus a rich program of temporary exhibitions, didactic activities, conventions and musical appointments.
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La Galleria di Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano
In addition to the normal official functions of this historical building in Via Toledo, Naples, it also houses a section devoted to exhibitions with the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula by Caravaggio, together with a group of views of Naples and the Campania countryside by Gaspar van Wittel and Anton Smink Pitloo.
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Villa Pignatelli Napoli
Villa Pignatelli Napoli
In the splendid nineteenth century residence that today is the Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes Museum, there is a permanent exhibition of a nucleus of 150 works from the collection formerly owned by the Banco di Napoli, including paintings by Vanvitelli, Giuseppe De Nittis, Anton Smink Pitloo and Giacinto Gigante, and drawings and sculptures by Vincenzo Gemito.
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Le raccolte d'arte
The Intesa Sanpaolo artistic heritage, this extraordinary result of collecting activity throughout the story of the Banks merged in the Group, is now available online thanks to an amazing feat of cataloguing and profound historical-critical work carried out by scientific committees.

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Per  il Patrimonio Culturale del Paese
Since 1989, the annual Restituzioni restoration program has guaranteed the recovery of over five hundred works of art belonging to Italy's Heritage. This is promoted and run by the Bank in collaboration with the competent Superintendencies for restoration of works of art destined to be shown to the general public.
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Le mostre temporanee
Intesa Sanpaolo creates and curates exhibitions as a way of making the most of its art collections and this activity runs in parallel with more traditional loans of its works to important exhibitions and in support of high-profile initiatives organized by public and private bodies.
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I palazzi

The possibility of planning guided visits around the architecture of its premises and the investigation of their history are both non-conventional ways of paying homage to the evolution of the Bank itself, but also to the architectonic and urban pattern of the cities where the bank has branches.

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Respecting and continuing the long tradition of publishing initiatives supported by the Banks merged in the group, Intesa Sanpaolo organizes and promotes projects aimed at the in-depth study of art, music, history and economics.