Museo missionario dei Padri Cappuccini
Museum of the Capuchin friars in Reggio Emilia, with a picture gallery of sacred paintings, works by friar painters and missionary collections.
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About the museum
The museum is in the Capuchin convent in Reggio Emilia, in Via Ferrari Bonini, and brings together collections of sacred art and ethnographic material linked to the order’s missionary work.
The permanent display of paintings is on the third floor. Among the most important pieces are the altarpiece with Saint Francis praying before the crucifix by Bartolomeo Passarotti, from the Capuchin church, and the canvas with the Holy Family with the young Saint John and the mystical marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Camillo Procaccini.
A particular group consists of works by Capuchin painters, including the Venetian Paolo Piazza, and above all the paintings by Giuseppe Barnaba Solieri, the Carpi-born friar Stefano da Carpi, a painter, sculptor and engraver of the 18th century.
Highlights
- Altarpiece by Bartolomeo Passarotti with Saint Francis at prayer
- Holy Family by Camillo Procaccini
- Works by the Capuchin painter Paolo Piazza
- Paintings by Giuseppe Barnaba Solieri, Friar Stefano da Carpi
- Missionary and ethnographic collections
Permanent exhibition
- Pinacoteca cappuccina – Sacred paintings by Passarotti and Procaccini, works by friar painters and the group of paintings by Giuseppe Barnaba Solieri.
- Operated by
- Frati Cappuccini di Reggio Emilia
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
Free admission.
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