Fondazione Bano was founded with the specific intention to make real the involvement of Federico Bano on artistic and cultural activities. This project becomes reality with the purchasing and the renovation of Palazzo Zabarella an historical building designed to host a multipurpose cultural centre devoted to art, studies and research. The choices that direct Fondazione Bano’s projects and activities aim to spectacular and scientific quality of events and to the creation , on the basis of different experiences, a specific observatory that investigates the most important facts and figures on the international art – contemporary culture. With the first retrospective dedicated to the French painter Maurice Utrillo, the activity of Fondazione Bano begin in 1997.