The Museum of the Diocese at Padua is housed in the elegant rooms of Palazzo Vescovile (Bishop’s Palace) and covers more then two thousand square metres. On the first floor, twelve rooms host the permanent exhibition of the rich historical and artistic holdings of the Church of Padua. The rooms give onto the Bishops’ Hall and have been recently restored: they host paintings, sculptures, objects of goldsmith art and religious vestments coming from the entire territory of Padua’s Diocese and their walls are entirely covered with frescoes. The museum route also includes the Chapel of Saint Mary of Angels, erected in 1490 by bishop Pietro Barozzi in the course of the refurbishment of the Palazzo Vescovile in the Renaissance Age. In 1495 the artist Jacopo Parisati da Montagnana frescoed the chapel walls with scenes from the Creed of the Apostle and painted the triptych of the Annunciation on the main altar. On the ground floor, the room dedicated to San Gregorio Barbarigo regularly displays codes and incunabula from Padua Chapter Library, outstanding among which are the 14th-century antiphonary manuscripts of the cathedral, showing artistic affinity with Giotto’s frescoes in the Scrovegni’s Chapel.
Info
Piazza Duomo 12, Padova
Tel +39 049 8761924
Fax +39 049 8226150
[email protected]
www.museodiocesanopadova.it
