Museo diocesano di Ascoli Satriano
Sacred art museum in the former monastery of Santa Maria del Popolo in Ascoli Satriano, with paintings, sculptures, silverware and vestments from the 13th to the 18th centuries.
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About the museum
The Museo diocesano di Ascoli Satriano was established by decree of Bishop Felice di Molfetta on 29 June 2003; on 24 July 2007 it became part of the Polo museale di Ascoli Satriano (local museum network). It occupies the upper floor of the former monastery of Santa Maria del Popolo. The church, dating from the 13th century, with two naves and a polygonal apse and largely restored in the mid-18th century, is now the museum’s auditorium. The monastery housed Augustinian hermits until their suppression in 1809, then the Redemptorists from 1818, the Sacramentine nuns and the Dominicans, who left it in 1961.
The picture gallery brings together 17th- and 18th-century canvases from Ascoli Satriano, Cerignola and Orta Nova, by unknown local artists and by masters of the Neapolitan school such as Paolo De Matteis and Paolo De Maio. Among the devotional sculptures, mainly figures of saints, stands out an enthroned Madonna and Child from Cerignola, dating from between the 13th and 14th centuries.
The silverware section includes monstrances, chalices and crosiers, a small instrumentum pacis (pax tablet) with the Madonna of the Purification, patron saint of Candela, and an ebony and mahogany cross inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl from Rocchetta Sant’Antonio. The route is completed by liturgical vestments in silk embroidered with gold.
Highlights
- Picture gallery of the 17th and 18th centuries with works of the Neapolitan school
- Enthroned Madonna and Child from Cerignola (13th–14th century)
- Liturgical silverware and a pax tablet
- Ebony and mahogany cross inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl
- Former 13th-century church used as an auditorium
Permanent exhibition
- Collezione di arte sacra – Picture gallery, devotional sculptures, silverware and liturgical vestments from the 13th to the 18th century, from churches in the area.
- Founded
- 2003
- Visitors per year
- approx. 8,622
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €4 |
|---|---|
| Reduced | €3 |
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