Collocated in Piazza Gabriotti, next to the cathedral dedicated to Saints Florido and Amanzio, with its surface area of almost 800 sqm, it is one of the largest Italian museums dedicated to sacred art.
Originally consisting of only two rooms, which were accessed through the cathedral sacristy, it was expanded and institutionalized in 1991 with the opening of five more rooms, located on two floors and partly obtained from the old sixteenth-seventeenth-century sacristies, partly from other fourteenth-fifteenth-century rooms already belonging to the church. The latest expansion dates to 2000, which extended the exhibition space to twelve rooms, also including a large Gothic hall with transverse pointed arches, perhaps originally a religious building, subject, like the other rooms, to a laborious restoration work.
The collection was formed with the aim of providing an adequate location for artworks owned by the Cathedral Chapter and churches of the territory and is distinguished by the quantity and quality of liturgical objects, ranging from the 6th to the 19th century. In addition to the Treasure of Canoscio, evidence of the cults practiced by local Christian communities in the 6th century, it preserves goldsmith works, including a 12th-century altar frontal and a Sienese goldsmith crosier curl, chalices, patens, monstrances, and a rich collection of sacred vestments notable for the integrity of most of the sets. The museum also preserves important documentary testimonies related to the city’s ecclesiastical history, among which, in particular, is the parchment with which Frederick Barbarossa placed the clergy under his protection, as well as paintings by illustrious artists such as Pintoricchio, Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco da Tiferno, and Bernardino Gagliardi.
Information about the Museo del Duomo of Città di Castello
Piazza Gabriotti, 3/A
06012 Città di Castello (Perugia)
0758554705
museoduomo@tiscali.it
Source: MIBACT
