Museo di pittura murale

About the museum

From the cloister of San Domenico you enter the Museo di Pittura Murale, founded in 1974 and part of the Musei Diocesani di Prato since 1990. It holds detached frescoes and sinopie (the preparatory drawings laid on the plaster) of various provenance, together with vestments, silverware and reliquaries from the convent. The entrance opens onto the far side of the elegant Renaissance cloister of 1480 of the former Dominican convent.

Among the main works are the tabernacle with the Madonna, the Child, angels and saints, frescoed by Niccolò Gerini in 1391 for the merchant Francesco Datini and displayed alongside its sinopia; the sinopie of the Tabernacle of Figline; a fresco by Pietro di Miniato of 1411; Renaissance graffiti attributed to Girolamo Ristori; and the Christ served by angels by Volterrano. On the upper order of the cloister the sinopie of Paolo Uccello’s frescoes in the Duomo of Prato are displayed.

The Diocese’s page indicates that the museum is currently closed for a new display.

Highlights

• Tabernacle by Niccolò Gerini for Francesco Datini and its sinopia
• Sinopie of Paolo Uccello’s frescoes in the Duomo
• Christ served by angels by Volterrano
• Renaissance cloister of 1480

Permanent exhibition

• Affreschi staccati e sinopie – Detached frescoes, sinopie, funerary monuments and furnishings of the convent of San Domenico.

Founded

1974

Operated by

Diocesi di Prato

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