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 whom a bust is also preserved. The bicentenary of the pontiff’s birth led in 1992 to the rearrangement of the collections. The collection consists 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 of Bolognese and Ferrarese school (13th-15th centuries). Among the main pictorial works worthy of mention are 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 Vivarini (14th century), detached frescoes of the school of Vitale da Bologna (14th century), a series of paintings from the 16th to the 18th century of Flemish, Emilian and Bolognese school, and other important artistic expressions ranging from the 11th to the 20th century.
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
