Nel palazzo del Vescovado, it has been open to the public since 1962, occupying the rooms (Portrait Gallery, Throne Room, Bedroom) of the apartment of Pius IX, former bishop of Imola, of which a bust is also preserved. The bicentenary of the birth of the pontiff led in 1992 to the rearrangement of the collections. The collection is made up of paintings, sculptures, silverware, liturgical furnishings, including a chasuble called the Queen of Naples, the robe of Our Lady of the Rosary, a processional cross, stone materials from the cathedral and the churches of the diocese, illuminated manuscripts from the Bolognese and Ferrarese schools (13th-15th centuries). Among the main pictorial works, it is worth mentioning the Madonna and Saints by Innocenzo da Imola (1516), the Madonna of Mazzolana attributed to Lorenzo Veneziano (14th century), the Madonna of the Master of Valverde (1472), the Madonna of the Vivarini (14th century), detached frescoes from the school of Vitale da Bologna (14th century), a series of paintings from the 16th to the 18th century from Flemish, Emilian and Bolognese schools, and other important artistic expressions between the 11th and 20th centuries.
Information about the diocesan Museum and art gallery
Piazza Duomo, 1,
40026 Imola (Bologna)
054225000
museo@mola.chiesacattolica.it
https://www.webdiocesi.chiesacattolica.it
Source: MIBACT
