Museo diocesano di Fabriano
Museum in the Palazzo Vescovile (Bishop's Palace) with paintings, sculptures, reliquaries and vestments telling the religious and artistic history of Fabriano from the 10th century to 1785.
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About the museum
The Museo diocesano di Fabriano, which belongs to the diocese of Fabriano-Matelica, was inaugurated on 8 September 2015 and occupies the ground floor of the Palazzo Vescovile. It aims to document the journey of the Church of Fabriano over the centuries.
The historical itinerary begins in the 10th and 11th centuries, when the Fabriano area began to acquire a cultural and social identity thanks to the numerous Benedictine settlements, and reaches 1785, the year in which Fabriano was raised to the rank of city and seat of a diocese, united with Matelica. Of particular significance is the period between the 14th and 15th centuries, when the Fabriano school of painting, nourished by the Giottesque experience of Assisi and then by the personality of Gentile da Fabriano, produced an extraordinary flowering of artists and works.
The rooms house paintings, sculptures, prints, sacred vessels, furnishings, reliquaries and liturgical vestments made by local and non-local artists, craftsmen and workshops, who impressed upon their works the religious sense and devotion of the Christian community.
Highlights
- Works of the Fabriano school of painting from the 14th and 15th centuries
- Reliquaries, sacred vessels and liturgical vestments
- Sculptures and prints from the history of the diocese
- Location on the ground floor of the Palazzo Vescovile
Permanent exhibition
- Percorso storico-artistico della diocesi di Fabriano – Paintings, sculptures, prints, sacred vessels, reliquaries and vestments from the 10th century to 1785, with particular attention to the Fabriano school of the 14th and 15th centuries.
- Founded
- 2015
- Operated by
- Diocesi di Fabriano-Matelica
- Director
- Laura Barbacci
- Visitors per year
- approx. 1,000
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