Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Siena)
 Museo dell'Opera della Metropolitana in the unfinished nave of the "New Cathedral" |
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The Museo dell'Opera della Metropolitana , also known as the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo of Siena , is located next to the cathedral , which is located in the right aisle of the "New Dome", an expansion project from the fourteenth century that was never completed.
The gallery collects works from the cathedral (the " Metropolitan Seat" is actually the seat of an archbishop ), among which are the majority of the artistic works of Duccio di Buoninsegna , with the absolute masterpiece, the Maestà , which was once the high altar of the Cathedral, and the stained glass window dedicated to the Assumption of Mary , placed high in the apse. The sculptures by Giovanni Pisano (removed from the facade), Donatello , Jacopo della Quercia , Giovanni Dupré , etc., now on display on the ground floor of the museum, were also part of the cathedral's furnishings.
The paintings include works by Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti , Gregorio di Cecco, Sano di Pietro , Matteo di Giovanni , Domenico Beccafumi , Francesco di Valdambrino .
history
The museum was founded in 1869 and has since been enlarged and renovated several times.
Exhibition tour
salon
The museum is accessed from a hall that exhibits architectural fragments and sculptures from both the facade and the sides and inside of the cathedral.
A large wrought iron gate from the fifteenth century, resting on a parapet from the school of Nicola Pisano , divides this space into two areas. In the first one can see high reliefs with the Annunciation , the Flight into Egypt and the Adoration of the Magi from the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Ponte allo Spino near Sovicille from the end of the 13th century. Followed by a front with sarcophagi from the imperial era with sea deities, a marble pluto with the Mater Ecclesiae under the symbols of the evangelists from the school of Giovanni Pisano , a relief with Saint Bernard by Urbano da Cortona and a lion by Giovanni Pisano.
Immediately made duplicates of the two eliminated Sienese wolves that were on the pillars in front of the facade of the cathedral, one attributed to Giovanni Pisano and one to Urbano da Cortona. At the center is the Madonna of forgiveness by Donatello , the destroyed cross portal of the cathedral, and the relief of the Madonna and Child , the Saints Jerome and Cardinal Antonio Casini kneeling by Jacopo della Quercia , a late work that is already on the altar of Casini was standing. The ten statues on the pillars are by Giovanni Pisano (1284–1296) and were originally on the cathedral facade: from the left Moses, Mary of Moses, Simeon, a Sibyl, Isaiah, Balaam, David, Abacuc, Plato, Solomon . Other statues from the fourteenth century, between the columns, come from the artist's school, with probable interventions by the master. The two bulls and the horse are also the work of Giovanni Pisano.
The fragments of the Madonna with the Child and Christ's Ancestors hanging in the upper left are attributed to Giovanni di Cecco (c. 1377) and come from the framing of the rosette. The large glass window on the back wall with the Assumption of Mary into heaven was designed by Duccio . On the floor is the 14th century tombstone of Tommaso Pecci and various original fragments of the floor inside and outside the cathedral, including the ordination of Nastagio di Gasparre (1450), six hexagons with the ages of man by Antonio Federighi (1475) and four small biblical episodes based on a design by Beccafumi .
First floor
On the first floor is the Sala di Duccio , dominated by the Maestà of the Duomo of Siena and the panels that make up the back, the predella and the tips. A masterpiece with which the brilliant period of Sienese painting began. The room houses another masterpiece, the Birth of the Virgin (1342) by Pietro Lorenzetti , also from an altar in the cathedral, and the Madonna of Crevole , a youth work by Duccio.
A door on the right leads to a room with three sixteenth-century wardrobes designed by Riccio , with wooden statues by Jacopo della Quercia and his collaborators. In a further adjoining room there is a wooden cross from the fourteenth century with two sufferers by Domenico di Niccolò dei Cori, from the Chiesa di San Pietro a Ovile (1417).
From the Sala di Duccio there is also a room that contains original architectural elements of the New Cathedral and drawings from the 19th century relating to the floor of the Cathedral , as well as sketches for the mosaics of the facade by Alessandro Alessandro Franchi and Luigi Mussini. In the showcases there are manuscripts (14th and 15th centuries) and various drawings for designs for the Duomo, including a parchment with a design for the Campanile of Florence, some of which are believed to have been signed by Giotto . Here is also the bronze statue of the risen Christ by Fulvio Signorini (1592).
Treasury
Along the staircase between the first and second floors, where a wooden crucifix from the 14th century hangs, is the Sala del Tesoro (Treasury), which houses the cathedral's most valuable furnishings. In the center is a reliquary of San Galgano , the abbey of the same name , made of gold-plated silver, embossed and decorated with filigree enamel work from the late 13th century. The crown of St. Galgano , with enamel work, dates from the same period . The reliquary of Saint Clement, on the other hand, dates from the seventeenth century and is made of gilded bronze with work in rock crystal .
Among the other goldsmith's works, the reliquary of the arm of the Baptist by Francesco d'Antonio (1466) stands out.
A Saint John is from a group of Pieta and is a terracotta sculpture by Giacomo Cozzarelli , probably from the Basilica dell'Osservanza , while the statue of Saint Savino is by Guido di Giovanni del Tonghio (1395) and around 1400 by Paolo di Giovanni Fei has been chromed in several colors. Other smaller sculptures are a design by Bernini with Saint Jerome , a crucifix by Giovanni Pisano, next to the painted pictures of the Passion by Giovanni di Paolo , the colorful wooden busts of Saints Crescenzia, Vittore and Savino , masterpieces by Francesco di Valdambrino from 1409 ; The twelve drafts of statues of the apostles by Giuseppe Mazzuoli were models of statues from the cathedral and are now in the Oratorian Church in London .
Under the small paintings there is a panel from the Duccio school with the Madonna and Child .
In a small adjoining room is the treasure of the Vow Chapel, which consists of liturgical objects donated by Alessandro VII Chigi , including objects with enamel work and rock crystals, which were created by French and German-Flemish goldsmiths in the first half worked in Rome in the seventeenth century.
Second floor
On the second floor there is the room of the Madonna with the Big Eyes, which takes its name from a panel from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, which the Master of Tressa painted, partially in relief, in front of which the city representatives the evening before took a vow at the Battle of Montaperti (1260). Here are some works by Sano di Pietro , such as the Sermon of Saint Bernard in Piazza del Campo and the Sermon of Saint Bernard in Piazza San Francesco (1440–1450), which show the buildings, clothes and life of the time clearly show. He also painted a Saint Bernard in Glory on wood (around 1450) and a Madonna with child, angels and Saints Apollonia and Berhard from the Chiesa di Sant'Andrea a Frontignano.
Four side saints come from a polyptych by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1320-1330) while the nine tablets with the creed are assigned to Giovanni di Bindo. The Holy Hieronimus is by Giovanni di Paolo and the four coffin heads of Sodoma (1426-1427). Other works are on two sides painted doors ( History of the Cross and angel busts ) by Benedetto di Bindo and helpers (1411-12), formerly part of a reliquary cabinet in the cathedral, a Madonna and Child which Sassetta is attributed (ca. 1435), a Tablet with the apparition of St. Francis in the chapter of Arles by Giovanni di Paolo, the polyptichon of the Madonna with Milk and Saints by Gregorio di Cecco (1423), the Madonna and Child by Pellegrino di Mariano.
Landing
From the landing you can also reach the Saloncino dei Conversari, where Vittorio Alfieri read some of his tragedies in 1777 . This room is now decorated with various paintings on canvas and on wood: Saint Anthony of Padua attributed to Matteo Balducci, Madonna enthroned between Saints by Matteo di Giovanni (1479), Angels making music by Girolamo Magagni called "Giomo del Sodoma", the Madonna on the throne between Saints Anthony of Padua and Bernhard , first known work by Matteo di Giovanni (signed and dated 1460), Saint Paul on the throne by Domenico Beccafumi (c. 1515), the Madonna and Child between Saints Anthony and Abate Agata by Cristoforo Roncalli (1576), a Last Supper from the seventeenth century by an unknown artist, Saint Cosma and Saint Damian by Bernardino Mei , Entombment and Christ before Pilate by Luca Giordano , attributed to the Holy Family Riccio , the Resurrection by Girolamo Genga .
There are various altar cloths under the paintings . On the wall of the passage there is an angel proclaiming and an Annunciation to Mary in terracotta, which refer to the activities of the sculptor Beccafumi (approx. 1541).
This is followed by a room, the wall of which is covered with cloths from the former monastery of Campansi, with a collection of chasubles from the 16th to 19th centuries. On the left, in front of the window, is the marble sculpture of the sleeping child by Giovanni Dupré.
other areas
Two spiral staircases lead to the terrace at the Facciatone, from which you can enjoy an exceptional view of the cathedral and the city. Other rooms are dedicated to the sculptures that come from the sides of the cathedral. The exit is through the passage to the Chiesa di San Niccolò in Sasso on the back of Via del Poggio. The space is characterized by a homogeneous decoration from the late sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries, with stucco, frescoes and altarpieces by Francesco and Raffaello Vanni , Rutilio Manetti and Niccolò Tornioli .
Works
- Madonna with the Big Eyes , ca.1225
- Stained glass window of the Cathedral of Siena , 1287–1288
- Madonna of Crevole , approx. 1283–1284
- Maestà , 1308-1311
- Birth of the Virgin , 1335–1342
- Resurrection of Christ , 1336–1337
- Madonna of Forgiveness , 1457–1459
- Saint Paul Enthroned , ca.1515
literature
- Toscana. Guida d'Italia (= guida rossa ). Touring Club Italiano, Milan 2003, ISBN 88-365-2767-1 , p. 536 .
Web links
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- ↑ Touring, cit., P. 532.
- ↑ a b c d Touring, cit., P. 533.
- ↑ a b c d Touring, cit., P. 534.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Touring, cit., P. 535.
- ↑ a b c d Touring, cit., P. 536.
- ↑ Bambini addormentati nell'arte purista da Giovanni Dupré a Tito Sarrocchi. In: Finestre sull'Arte. Retrieved January 5, 2019 (Italian).