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 route reveals the political and cultural changes that took place 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, to relations with Aragonese Naples, to the strong bond that tied it to Venice for at least two centuries, to the cultural debt towards the Viceroyalty and then the Kingdom of Naples. Paintings by Lazzaro Bastiani, Costantino da Monopoli, Francesco Vecellio, Paolo Veronese, Jacopo Palma il Giovane, Paolo Finoglio, Alessandro Fracanzano, Andrea Miglionico, Giambattista Lama are exhibited, works that cover a period from 1400 to 1700, bound to Venice and the Kingdom of Naples, due to the historical events of the city of Monopoli. You can also admire, in the museum space, a precious staurotheca (1000-1100), icons, artistic evidence linked 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
Ex Seminario Vescovile, Via Cattedrale, 26
70043 Monopoli (Bari)
080748002
info@museodiocesanomonopoli.it
https://www.museodiocesanomonopoli.it/
Source: MIBACT
