Musée du Petit Palais (Avignon)

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Musée du Petit Palais in Avignon
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The Musée du Petit Palais ( German Museum in the Small Palace ) is a museum and art gallery in Avignon , France.

history

The museum, located about 200 m from the Papal Palace and the Pont d'Avignon , opened in 1976. The present museum building dates back to the 14th century and was formerly the official residence of the Archbishop of Avignon and is called the "Small Palace" ( French Petit Palais ) to distinguish it from the Palace of the Popes .

collection

The holdings come from the Musée Calvet in Avignon and the Louvre in Paris.

The museum shows, among other things, a collection of works by the Avignon School , art at the court of the Popes when they resided there from 1309 to 1376, and paintings from the Italian Renaissance , some of which come from the extensive collection of Giampietro Campana which the French state acquired in part in 1861.

literature

  • Gabriel Colombe: Le Palais des Papes d'Avignon . Paris 1927
  • DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: France . London u. a. 2005
  • Michel Laclotte, Esther Moench: Italian Peinture: Musée du petit palais Avignon . Avignon 2005

Web links

Commons : Musée du Petit Palais (Avignon)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Musée du Petit-Palais - map
  2. ↑ Georges de Loÿe, Elisabeth Mognetti: Avignon - Musée du Petit Palais , Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1983 ISBN 978-2-71180231-9 , p. 16

Coordinates: 43 ° 57 ′ 9.5 "  N , 4 ° 48 ′ 23"  E