Il Museo Diocesano di 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 itinerary reveals the political and cultural changes that occurred 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, the relations with Aragonese Naples, the strong bond that for at least two centuries tied it to Venice, the cultural debt towards the Viceroyalty and then the Neapolitan Kingdom. 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 that cover a period from 1400 to 1700, connected to Venice and the Kingdom of Naples due to the historical events of the city of Monopoli. Also on display in the museum space are a precious staurotheca (1000 -1100), icons, artistic testimonies related to the Byzantine past, a wooden triptych by Campsa (1500), miniatures by Reginaldo de’ Pirano, a portolan, manuscripts, antiphonaries, valuable liturgical objects, sacred vestments, chalices, chrism jars, and monstrances.
Information about the DIOCESAN Museum of Monopoli
Former Episcopal Seminary, Via Cattedrale, 26
70043 Monopoli (Bari)
080748002
info@museodiocesanomonopoli.it
https://www.museodiocesanomonopoli.it/
Source: MIBACT
