City Art Gallery in Vicenza Palazzo Chiericati in a building designed by Andrea Palladio in 1550, the year for Girolamo Chiericati. The grand palace was finally completed only at the end of the 17th century according to original designs. In 1839 the municipality bought Vicenza Palazzo Chiericati from an aristocratic family and placed in it the urban art collection. Subsequently, the building was renovated by the architects Berti and Milorantsa and in 1855, the year it was opened to the public as a museum.

Today in the Palazzo Chiericati houses a collection of paintings and sculptures, drawings and sketches Rooms and Hall of numismatics. An important core of the collection are paintings altarpieces from the now-defunct Church of San Bartolomeo and Bartolomeo Montagna works, Giovanni Bonkonsilo, Cima da Conegliano, Giovanni Speranza and Marcello Fogolino. Here you can see seven huge tympanum with the image of the glorification of the Venetian rulers work Jacopo Bassano, Francesco Maffei and Giulio Karpioni.

In the 19th century, the museum's collection replenished masterpieces by such masters as Tintoretto, Anton Van Dyck, Sebastiano and Marco Ricci, Luca Giordano, Giambattista Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, transmitted by aristocratic families of the city. The real gem of the meeting are 33 drawings by Andrea Palladio, who in 1839 bequeathed to the museum by Gaetano Pinna. Another patron of the arts, Neri Pozza, donated to the museum's own collection of sculptures and engravings, as well as works from his collection of contemporary art - paintings by Carlo Carra, Filippo De Pisis, Virgilio Judy Osvaldo Licini, Ottone Rosalie, and others.

Over the years, City Art Gallery has expanded not only its assets, but also space. The core of it remains the Palazzo Chiericati, and in the 19th century to it on the south side was attached another building.