Musée de la Chapelle de la Visitation
The Musée de la Chapelle de la Visitation is an art museum in Monaco .
description
The museum is located in a 17th century church building designed by Marc-Antoine Grigho, which originally belonged to a convent of the Salesian Sisters . The order to build the church was placed around 1675 by Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont , the wife of Prince Louis I of Monaco .
The museum has shown works from Barbara Piasecka Johnson's collection since the late 1990s . After the collector's death, these works of art were auctioned off in 2014. The chapel is partly used for baroque concerts.
literature
- Jozef Grabski: Opus Sacrum. European art from the private collection Barbara Piasecka Johnson. Irsa Verlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-900731-34-9 .
Web links
- Musée de la Chapelle de la Visitation . In: Monte-Carlo.mc (English)
- Chapel Museum of the Visitation of Mariae . In: ViaMichelin.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of the Principality of Monaco on the removal of the Barbara Piasecka Johnson collection from April 28, 2014
- ↑ Press release from the Principality of Monaco on a concert on December 9, 2016
Coordinates: 43 ° 43 ′ 54.1 ″ N , 7 ° 25 ′ 30.3 ″ E