The fundamental group of the objects d’art, 229 paintings and 108 draws, is composed from the private collection belonging to the brothers Girolamo e Rosaria Devanna, both are from Bitonto an important cultural and artistic reality.

The Gallery is housed in Sylos Calò Palace (500), it become State propriety according to the necessity of collect all these objects d’art. The entrance of the Palace has been well organized with a ticket office, a bookshop.

At the second floor, reachable with an elevator also from disabled persons, there are two rooms dedicated to the 500th of particular relevance are two paintings of Donato Bizamano, Thomàs Bathàs. Well represented is the painting tradition of the south (Pietro Negroni, Giovan Filippo Criscuolo), reaching according to the Serenissima tradition the coloured Mannerism of “Il Veronese”. It comes back, through an ideal circular way, to the Spanish paint of “El Greco”.

Considerable the visit of the rooms which collect the paintings testimonies of the Baroque age between 600th (three rooms) and 700 (two rooms). The names are many and important Gentileschi, Beinaschi, Lanfranco. To point out the “Tavola con Cristo deriso” attributed to Bernardino Mei, and the portrait Baglione, Miel, Voet and that attributed to Velazquez. The exhibition goes on with some painting and draws dated back to 800 and 900 signed from Gioacchino Toma, Giuseppe De Nittis, Francesco Netti, Francesco Speranza, Salvatore Fergola, i Sartorio, De Carolis and many others.

The contemporary art (the room dedicated to the 900 it’s at the ground floor) can boast the presence of many important artists as Notte, Marasco, Spizzico and American artists as Joseph Stella and Beatrice Wood who testify the curiosity of the collectors towards different artistic experiences.

The frame of this artistic heritage is the noble Palace Sylos Calò dated back to ‘500 which greets the visitors passing Porta Baresana (the gate) and crossing Cavour Square.