The museum was established in 1932, following the restoration works of the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta. A small but valuable museum of sacred art, it houses works originating from the collegiate itself: silverware and furnishings, including an Ambrosian cross in chased silver by Bartolomeo Zucconi (1540), textiles such as the refined Byzantine manufacture altar frontal from the 13th century and the white silk cope from the 15th century, furniture, codices, parchment documents from 1120, and antiphonaries from the 16th-17th centuries located in the rooms adjacent to the cloister. The picture gallery features detached frescoes from the 15th and 16th centuries, a gold background polyptych from the early 15th century, a ‘Nativity’ by Cristoforo Caselli (1502), works from the Emilian school of the 17th-18th centuries, three canvases by the Neapolitan Gaspare Traversi (‘Deposition’, ‘Mocking of Christ’, ‘Christ Presented to the People’), an ‘Ecstasy of St. Francis’ attributed to Francesco del Cairo, paintings by Spada, Spolverini, Magnasco, Landi, Stern. The collection also preserves Roman artifacts from the territory and architectural fragments from various periods.
Information on the Museum of the Collegiate Church of Castell’Arquato
Piazza Don E. Cagnoni, 57 (c/o Church of the Assumption),
29014 Castell’Arquato (Piacenza)
0523803091
Source: MIBACT
