IL MUSEO DIOCESANO NEL PALAZZO EPISCOPALE DI FAENZA
Il nuovo Museo Diocesano di Faenza è collocato nel palazzo episcopale il cui nucleo più antico risale al XII secolo.
Pubblicazioni:
- “Museo arte sacra città”, a cura di G. Gualdrini (Edit, 2012)
- G. Gualdrini, A. Tambini: “Dalle Chiese al museo. Il museo diocesano di Faenza-Modigliana. Guida breve” (Edit, 2012)
- G. Gualdrini: “The Diocesan Museum. Artworks and Places” in “Religion and Museums. Immaterial and Material Heritage”, edited by V. Minucciani (Allemandi, 2013)
- G. Gualdrini: “Fra restauro e Museografia religiosa. Note in margine al nuovo Museo Diocesano nel palazzo episcopale di Faenza”, in “Arte Cristiana” n.886 (Milano, 2015)
The new Diocesan Museum of Faenza is situated in the episcopal palace, the oldest core part of which goes back to the 12th Century. The main museum space is the Sala Superior where, in addition to fragments of 13th Century six-light windows that emerged during the work of refurbishment, important sections of frescoes from the Giottesque School of Rimini are present, themselves dating from the ’30s of the 14th Century: ‘The Four Saints’, ‘The Triumph of Death’, ‘The Meeting of the Three Living Persons and the Three Dead Persons’ and ‘The Final Judgment’. Of the same period as the paintings by Buffalmacco in the Camposanto of Pisa (1330-1340), the paintings are to be placed historically in the artistic current that spread the lessons of Giotto and of French figurative culture, as this latter was promoted by Bertrand du Pouget, Papal legate in Bologna, throughout Emilia Romagna, in the second decade of the Avignon Captivity. The complex task of bringing to light and recovering this ancient space has made it possible for the architect Giorgio Gualdrini to reflect on the relationship between restoration and museography, taking a closer look, at the same time, at the problems inherent in installation where it has to do with the migration of sacred works of art from churches to a museum whose environments traverse the centuries, from the Romanesque period right up to the Baroque.
