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Levis Children's Asylum
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Levis Children's Asylum
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Room I
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Room I
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Room I
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Room I
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Photography
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Photography
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Room II
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Room II
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Room III
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Room III
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The caravan in the desert - 1912, oil on panel
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The caravan in the desert - 1912, oil on panel
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The Red Jacket - 1906, oil on panel
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The Red Jacket - 1906, oil on panel
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Woodcutters on the Snow - 1911, oil on panel
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Woodcutters on the Snow - 1911, oil on panel
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Procession in Chiomonte - undated, oil on panel
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Procession in Chiomonte - undated, oil on panel
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Via Vittorio Emanuele II 75, 10050 Chiomonte
The G. A. Levis Art Gallery is housed in the sixteenth-century palace associated with the Paleologo family of Chiomonte, which came into the possession of the painter Giuseppe Augusto Levis in 1911. It preserves a substantial group of paintings that testify to much of the artist's journey over the first thirty years of the twentieth century (1900 - 1926).
Among the wide selection of works, there is a core dedicated to mountain landscape painting, which connects the Art Gallery to various collections present in other Piedmontese museum institutions. The artist's work, particularly that related to the first phase of his production, is linked to the works of Lorenzo Delleani and his teachings, presumably imparted to the Chiomonte painter from the late nineteenth century. The Alpine landscapes of Giuseppe Augusto Levis, along with those of a few other nineteenth-century Piedmontese authors, allow for an in-depth exploration of the memory of life in the Upper Val Susa, compared with the other Piedmontese valleys, creating a strong connection with the history of the surrounding communities.
The museum was established following the testamentary bequest of painter Giuseppe Augusto Levis to the Municipality of Chiomonte of a large selection of his works intended for educational and social purposes. Since 1974, four rooms of the historic Levis family palace have been dedicated as exhibition space and, with varying opening times, the spaces of the Art Gallery were refurbished around the early 1990s and regularly opened to the public since 2008.
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