The Diocesan Museum of Monopoli, adjacent to the Cathedral, was established on June 29, 2002, in the premises of the former Episcopal Seminary, founded by Bishop Giuseppe Cavalieri in 1668. The route reveals the political and cultural changes that took place over the centuries in Monopoli, from the “Byzantine” past, testified among other things by the icon of the Madonna della Madia, to the Swabian and Angevin period, to relations with Aragonese Naples, to the strong bond that tied it to Venice for at least two centuries, to the cultural debt towards the Viceroyalty and then the Kingdom of Naples. Paintings by Lazzaro Bastiani, Costantino da Monopoli, Francesco Vecellio, Paolo Veronese, Jacopo Palma the Younger, Paolo Finoglio, Alessandro Fracanzano, Andrea Miglionico, Giambattista Lama are on display, works covering a period from the 1400s to the 1700s, linked to Venice and the Kingdom of Naples, due to the historical events of the city of Monopoli. You can also admire in the museum space a precious stauroteca (1000-1100), icons, artistic testimonies linked to the Byzantine past, a wooden triptych by Campsa (1500), miniatures by Reginaldo de’ Pirano, a portolan chart, manuscripts, antiphonaries, valuable liturgical objects, sacred vestments, chalices, chrism vessels, and monstrances.
Information on the Diocesan Museum of Monopoli
Former Episcopal Seminary, Via Cattedrale, 26
70043 Monopoli (Bari)
080748002
info@museodiocesanomonopoli.it
https://www.museodiocesanomonopoli.it/
Source: MIBACT
