Museo Diocesano Francesco Gonzaga
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| place | Piazza Virgiliana 55, Mantua 
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Church art
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| opening | 1983 |
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Roberto Brunelli
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The Museo Francesco Gonzaga is the diocesan museum of the diocese of Mantua .
Originally opened in 1974 as a special exhibition entitled Art Treasures in the Land of the Gonzagas , it was opened as a permanent museum in 1983 and set up in the old Augustinian monastery of Sant'Agnese in Mantua . The museum is dedicated to the Franciscan Francesco Gonzaga , bishop of the diocese of Mantua from 1593–1620.
The museum is currently managed by Roberto Brunelli .
Works
The Diocesan Museum houses works from the cathedral, the Palatina Santa Barbara basilica, the diocese and numerous private collections organized in the exhibition areas:
- Art gallery
- Treasury
- Coins
- Armor
- Tapestries
- Ceramics
Art gallery
The art gallery houses both paintings and sculptures. Among them:
- Saint George killing the dragon (15th century), late Gothic sculpture by Pierpaolo dalle Masegne;
- a crucifixion (15th century), on a panel by Francesco Maineri from Ferrara;
- Apple Madonna , attributed to Ortolano,
- The Sinopia of the Assumption attributed to Andrea Mantegna ;
- Entombment and Holy Family with Elisabeth and little John , frescoes in Sinopie, early work of art by Correggio ;
- Altarpiece of St. Tecla (mid 16th century) by Gerolamo Mazzola Bedoli, from the cathedral;
- Holy Conversation by Domenico Fetti , 1616;
- Saint Sebastian by Benedetto Pagni;
- Recovery from the Flight into Egypt by Francesco Cairo.
There is also the most important collection of the works of Giuseppe Bazzani (active in the first half of the 18th century), which allows us to retrace his artistic path. Among his works:
- Assumption of Mary ;
- Entombment of Jesus , from the cathedral;
- Christ carries the cross ;
- Vision of Saint Romuald (1753).
Treasury
The treasure of the Duomo of Mantua and the Palatina di Santa Barbara basilica is a compact and cohesive inventory of goldsmith work that has largely remained intact. They manage at least to give an idea of the splendor of the Gonzagas, especially in the mid- Renaissance , the height of the dynasty's political and economic fortune. Among the objects shown here:
- Ivory boxes (11th-12th centuries) Islamic work;
- Madonna and Child (14th century), in gilded silver from a French manufacture;
- one osculatorium from 1513 another from 1562
- the Missal of Barbara von Brandenburg , 1442 commissioned by Gianlucido Gonzaga to the Lombard miniaturist Belbello da Pavia and completed by Girolamo da Cremona with the support of Taddeo Crivelli in 1556.
- the closure of a cope with the monogram of Christ (1561–1562), in gold and precious stones, a gift from the Dukes of Bavaria to Vincenzo Gonzaga;
- the Reliquary of the True Cross or Stauroteca di Santa Barbara (1573), a Lombard workshop, was commissioned by Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga for the Basilica Palatina di Santa Barbara to preserve some fragments of the True Cross from his mother Margherita Paleologa;
- the reliquary of Saint Barbara (16th century) from a Venetian workshop;
- the Reliquary of the Precious Blood (1573) commissioned by Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga;
- the reliquary of St. Giovanni Bono (late 16th century);
- the reliquary of Saint Adriano (door 1605 ), in ebony, turtle, silver and ivory;
- Crosses that range from the Middle Ages to the 18th century.
Coins
The museum has a numismatic area displaying around sixty Roman coins, a selection from Pietro Zappa's collection, whose donation consists of 400 pieces. Most of the Roman coins on display are from the Roman Republic , but there are also examples from the Hellenistic and Imperial periods .
weapons
After the historic victory in the fight against the French at Fornovo in 1495, the commanders and armaments experts of the militia of Gianfrancesco Gonzaga donated their armor as an ex voto to the sanctuary of the Madonna delle Grazie in Curtatone, near Mantua. The restored and restored armor has proven to be of remarkable quality, made by Milanese and Brescian gunsmiths, including the Missaglia workshop. They form a unique whole that is not only important for the history of weapons, but also for the specific field of handicrafts.
Tapestries
There are three Flemish tapestries from the early 16th century woven in Bruges and the complete series of Duomo tapestries woven in Paris between 1594 and 1598 on behalf of Francesco Gonzaga, Bishop of Mantua, and to Pope Clement VIII. Were sent to Paris as apostolic nuncio .
Ceramics
The most recent extension was inaugurated on October 1, 2016 and was the collection of the ceramics collected by the Mantuan painters Domenico and Vindizio Nodari Pesenti in the 20th century. About seventy pieces are exhibited that date from the Renaissance and were also used in everyday life.
literature
- Lionello Boccia: Le armature di Santa Maria delle Grazie di Curtatone di Mantova . Bramante editrice, Busto Arsizio 1982 (Italian).
- Stefano Zuffi: I Musei Diocesani in Italia. Primo volume . Palazzolo sull'Oglio (BS), 2003, p. 33-37 (Italian).
- Erminia Giacomini Miari, Paola Mariani: Musei religiosi in Italia . Touring Club Italiano, Milan 2005, p. 135-136 (Italian).
- Paola Venturelli: Gli smalti dipinti Limoges . Ed.Publi Paolini, Mantua 2010 (Italian).
- Renato Berzaghi, Stefano L'Occaso: Dipinti e arazzi (1430-1630) . Ed.Publi Paolini, Mantua 2011 (Italian).
- Roberto Brunelli: Il museo Francesco Gonzaga di Mantova. Guida alla visita. Mantua 2011 (Italian).
- Paola Venturelli: Ori e avori . Mantua 2012 (Italian).
- Renato Berzaghi, Stefano L'Occaso: Dipinti 1630-1866 . Mantua 2014 (Italian).
- Roberto Brunelli: Parole dipinte. Viaggi tra il museo e la biblioteca . Universitas Studiorum, Mantua 2014 (Italian).
- Bruno Cavallaro, Daniele Lucchini: Nel soldo di Roma. Monete romane del museo Francesco Gonzaga di Mantova . Mantua 2016 (Italian).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gilberto Scuderi: Al Museo Diocesano le antiche ceramiche dei Nodari Pesenti (it) , Gazzetta di Mantova, pp. 28-29.