With the exposure "the rooms of the wonders", in program to leave from next the 13 you open them 2006, the Work of the Dome of Orvieto completes a first meaningful step towards the definitive reopening of one of the main museums of art of the Umbria, closed give beyond vent' years. Articulated in two centers, the Papal Palaces - extraordinary medieval architectonic complex placed side by side to the cathedral and the church of Sant' Augustin inserted in the medieval nucleus of the city, this initiative in the first place gives back to the fruizione one series of works of greatest historical-artistic value that rispecchiano the vastness and the variety of the collected and conserved patrimony from the ancient Fabbriceria; therefore it reaffirms deep the original tie with the city and the territory of this institution and this museum that nacque in the 1882 with one strongly civic and municipal connotation. In the four it knows them of the palaces will be exposed in chronological progression a critical selection of sculptures, paintings and splendid manufatti of the several decorative limbs, from the 1200's to the first half of the 1600's, many of which it recovers thanks to you to specific participations of restoration. They are, in particular, the Madonna in throne with Child attributed to painter fiorentino Coppo di Marcovaldo (1270ca), two works of Simone Martini, the Polittico di San Domenico (132ça) and the panel centers them of the Polittico di San Francisco (1320 ca), the small acephalous statues of the two turiferari Angels of Arnolfo di Cambio (1282 ca), with to some capolavori of the trecentesca sculpture, the oreficeria and the senese ebanisteria of the same age, as the Reliquiario di San Savino and the elements originate them of the ligneo chorus of the cathedral.
Between the rinascimentali works, they will be introduces to you, beyond to brani interesting of quattrocenteschi murari paintings, the table with the Maddalena executed from the sacred Signorelli in 1504 and some vestments of exceptional pregio and be of conservation, whose embroiderys come from cardboards of Bartolomeo di Giovanni, Raffaellino of the Garbo and Sandro Botticelli.Infine, riproposti, for before the time after the cinquecenteschi restoration, paintings - 13 great which had burlaps and a table to the great protagonists of the art of the Controriforma like Nicolò Circignani, Girolamo Muziano and Cesar Fog - coming from from the lateral altars of the Dome dismantles you to the end of the 1800's, and never recomposed unitarally before ora.La church of Sant' Augustin, will receive instead, in all the eccezionalità of the event, the scultoreo group of the Annunciation of Francisco Mochi (the 1603-1608) and complex of the 12 monumental statues of the Apostles realized between the end of the XVI and the beginning of XVIII the century from Raffaello from Montelupo, Francisco Moscow, Barefoot Ippolito, Giambologna, Giovanni Caccini, Francisco Mochi, Ippolito Buzi, Bernardino Cametti.Le statues, originally placed in the tribune and the navata one centers them of the cathedral and epurate anch' they they give the nineteenth-century purista rigorismo, they will come exhibited in this temporary center just in the attempt to promote of riscoperta and the new interest of study. The extension will be able in fact to constitute an important dialectic moment and of reflection and will concur to estimate concretely many aspects of the plan for the new Museum of the Work in the perspective of its realization and its role to the inside of the cultural system of reference.

The rooms of the wonders. From Simone Martini to Francisco Mochi. Towards the Museum of the Work of the Dome.
Orvieto, from the 13 you open them 2006 to 7 January 2007
Center: Papal palaces and church of Sant' Augustin

Timetables: every day with hour following
April-june from hours 10 to hours 18
July-August from hours 10 to hours 13 and from hours 15 to hours 19
september-October from hours 10 to hours 18
November-March from hours 10 to hours 17 (closed the tuesday)

Tickets: the ticket is only and allows the access to the two espositive centers and to

Nail head of Saint Brizio in Dome
entire € 5,00; reduced € 4,00

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