MUSEUM MASTERPIECES
Thematic guided tours in museums
SEPTEMBER 2021
Themed guided tours Museum Masterpieces by Sistema Museo, in collaboration with the Direzione Regionale Musei dell’Umbria – Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto – Tempietto sul Clitunno, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Municipality of Campello sul Clitunno continue. These are special thematic guided tours of the collections of the Spoleto Card museums.
The scheduled guided tours are an opportunity to deepen and discover the precious historical and artistic heritage of Spoleto and Campello sul Clitunno.
CALENDAR OF GUIDED TOURS – SEPTEMBER 2021
Roman House
The Roman house, mosaics and wall paintings
Thursday to Sunday 15:30
Church of St John and St Paul
The painting cycle and the Thomas Becket fresco.
Friday to Sunday 17:00
Collicola Palace
Temporary exhibitions.
Thursday at 18:00 – Giovanni Carandente. Archives and Documents
Thursday 6pm – Astanze di Stefano Di Stasio .
Thursday 6 p.m. – Work in Progress – Works from the Marignoli di Montecorona Collection.
Thursday 6pm – Drawings by Giuseppe Penone
A noble stroll.
Friday to Sunday at 18:00
Temple of Clitumnus
A monument that has fascinated for centuries.
Friday to Sunday 19:00
Participation fees
Full price € 4.00
Reduced price € 3,00 from 7 to 17 years old and for Spoleto Card holders
Free for children up to 6 years old
Subject to purchase of museum entrance ticket.
Participation in guided tours is subject to compliance with the current Covid-19 regulations.
Guided tours are limited in number and booking is compulsory.
Information and bookings:.
Sistema Museo | Wednesday to Monday | 0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it
FROM ABOVE THE TOWERS
Guided tours of the defensive walkways of the fortress
From Saturday 31 July 2021 guided tours of the defensive walkways of the Albornoz Fortress are back.
Sistema Museo in collaboration with the Direzione Regionale Musei dell’Umbria – Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto is promoting special guided tours of the defensive walkways of the fortress from which it is possible to dominate the valley and admire the fascinating panorama. The visits will make it possible to relate the landscape to the defensive function of the fortress and its strategic position in the territory.
Visits to the defensive walkways are scheduled:.
Mondays and Thursdays – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon – 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Participation fees
Full price € 4.00
Reduced price € 3,00 from 7 to 17 years old and for Spoleto Card holders
Free for children up to 6 years old
Subject to prior purchase of the monument entrance ticket.
Participation in the guided tours is subject to compliance with the current Covid-19 regulations.
Guided tours are limited in number and booking is compulsory.
Information and reservations:.
Thursday to Sunday and Monday
Museum System 0743.224952
museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
Artistic director Marco Tonelli proposes a journey through experimentation, writing, drawing and painting
Opening to the public on 26 June. Exhibitions will be open until 26 September
There will be four exhibitions organised by the City of Spoleto at Palazzo Collicola on the occasion of the 64th Festival Of 2 Worlds. Under the direction of Marco Tonelli, the artistic proposals of this summer 2021 (the opening is scheduled for 26 June and will be open until 26 September) will be a journey between experimentation, writing, drawings and painting, within different conceptual paths developed, in some cases, in periods apparently distant and ideally distant. Giuseppe Penone: Disegni Curated by Marco Tonelli, the exhibition, conceived together with the artist, will be set up in the inner rooms of the Modern Art Gallery. Promoted by the Festival Of Two Worlds, it is ideally inserted in the tradition of exhibitions of drawings by great modern and contemporary artists, such as MoMA’s American Drawings (1961), Modern Italian Drawings (1962), Willem de Kooning: drawings (1969), James Ensor. Drawings and etchings (1981), Balthus: drawings and watercolours (1982), which were held in Spoleto as part of the Festival. An exhibition of this kind, devoted exclusively to drawings, is the first to be held by Penone in Italy, following the one held at the Drawing Center in New York in 2007.
GUIDED WALKING TOURS OF SPOLETO
EVERY DAY (advance booking required)
Morning: 10h00
Afternoon: 16h00
Itinerary (2 hours): starting point at Piazza della Libertà, visit of the Roman Theatre, Arch of Drusus and Germanicus, Piazza del Mercato, Cathedral, walk around the Fortress, looking at the Fortress and the Bridge
Meeting point: Piazza della Libertà, in front of the Info Box, 10 minutes before departure
ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED
For information and booking:
Ph. +39 075 815227/28
emergency number: +39 339 3390103
e-mail: info@assoguide.it
Organization: AGTU (Associazione Guide Turistiche Umbria)
Tours are led by Authorized Tourist Guides
MUSEUM MASTERPIECES
Thematic guided tours in museums
SEPTEMBER 2021
Themed guided tours Museum Masterpieces by Sistema Museo, in collaboration with the Direzione Regionale Musei dell’Umbria – Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto – Tempietto sul Clitunno, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Municipality of Campello sul Clitunno continue. These are special thematic guided tours of the collections of the Spoleto Card museums.
The scheduled guided tours are an opportunity to deepen and discover the precious historical and artistic heritage of Spoleto and Campello sul Clitunno.
CALENDAR OF GUIDED TOURS – SEPTEMBER 2021
Roman House
The Roman house, mosaics and wall paintings
Thursday to Sunday 15:30
Church of St John and St Paul
The painting cycle and the Thomas Becket fresco.
Friday to Sunday 17:00
Collicola Palace
Temporary exhibitions.
Thursday at 18:00 – Giovanni Carandente. Archives and Documents
Thursday 6pm – Astanze di Stefano Di Stasio .
Thursday 6 p.m. – Work in Progress – Works from the Marignoli di Montecorona Collection.
Thursday 6pm – Drawings by Giuseppe Penone
A noble stroll.
Friday to Sunday at 18:00
Temple of Clitumnus
A monument that has fascinated for centuries.
Friday to Sunday 19:00
Participation fees
Full price € 4.00
Reduced price € 3,00 from 7 to 17 years old and for Spoleto Card holders
Free for children up to 6 years old
Subject to purchase of museum entrance ticket.
Participation in guided tours is subject to compliance with the current Covid-19 regulations.
Guided tours are limited in number and booking is compulsory.
Information and bookings:.
Sistema Museo | Wednesday to Monday | 0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it
FROM ABOVE THE TOWERS
Guided tours of the defensive walkways of the fortress
From Saturday 31 July 2021 guided tours of the defensive walkways of the Albornoz Fortress are back.
Sistema Museo in collaboration with the Direzione Regionale Musei dell’Umbria – Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto is promoting special guided tours of the defensive walkways of the fortress from which it is possible to dominate the valley and admire the fascinating panorama. The visits will make it possible to relate the landscape to the defensive function of the fortress and its strategic position in the territory.
Visits to the defensive walkways are scheduled:.
Mondays and Thursdays – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon – 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Participation fees
Full price € 4.00
Reduced price € 3,00 from 7 to 17 years old and for Spoleto Card holders
Free for children up to 6 years old
Subject to prior purchase of the monument entrance ticket.
Participation in the guided tours is subject to compliance with the current Covid-19 regulations.
Guided tours are limited in number and booking is compulsory.
Information and reservations:.
Thursday to Sunday and Monday
Museum System 0743.224952
museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
Artistic director Marco Tonelli proposes a journey through experimentation, writing, drawing and painting
Opening to the public on 26 June. Exhibitions will be open until 26 September
There will be four exhibitions organised by the City of Spoleto at Palazzo Collicola on the occasion of the 64th Festival Of 2 Worlds. Under the direction of Marco Tonelli, the artistic proposals of this summer 2021 (the opening is scheduled for 26 June and will be open until 26 September) will be a journey between experimentation, writing, drawings and painting, within different conceptual paths developed, in some cases, in periods apparently distant and ideally distant. Giuseppe Penone: Disegni Curated by Marco Tonelli, the exhibition, conceived together with the artist, will be set up in the inner rooms of the Modern Art Gallery. Promoted by the Festival Of Two Worlds, it is ideally inserted in the tradition of exhibitions of drawings by great modern and contemporary artists, such as MoMA’s American Drawings (1961), Modern Italian Drawings (1962), Willem de Kooning: drawings (1969), James Ensor. Drawings and etchings (1981), Balthus: drawings and watercolours (1982), which were held in Spoleto as part of the Festival. An exhibition of this kind, devoted exclusively to drawings, is the first to be held by Penone in Italy, following the one held at the Drawing Center in New York in 2007.GUIDED WALKING TOURS OF SPOLETO
EVERY DAY (advance booking required)
Morning: 10h00
Afternoon: 16h00
Itinerary (2 hours): starting point at Piazza della Libertà, visit of the Roman Theatre, Arch of Drusus and Germanicus, Piazza del Mercato, Cathedral, walk around the Fortress, looking at the Fortress and the Bridge
Meeting point: Piazza della Libertà, in front of the Info Box, 10 minutes before departure
ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED
For information and booking:
Ph. +39 075 815227/28
emergency number: +39 339 3390103
e-mail: info@assoguide.it
Organization: AGTU (Associazione Guide Turistiche Umbria)
Tours are led by Authorized Tourist Guides
MUSEUM MASTERPIECES
Thematic guided tours in museums
SEPTEMBER 2021
Themed guided tours Museum Masterpieces by Sistema Museo, in collaboration with the Direzione Regionale Musei dell’Umbria – Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto – Tempietto sul Clitunno, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Municipality of Campello sul Clitunno continue. These are special thematic guided tours of the collections of the Spoleto Card museums.
The scheduled guided tours are an opportunity to deepen and discover the precious historical and artistic heritage of Spoleto and Campello sul Clitunno.
CALENDAR OF GUIDED TOURS – SEPTEMBER 2021
Roman House
The Roman house, mosaics and wall paintings
Thursday to Sunday 15:30
Church of St John and St Paul
The painting cycle and the Thomas Becket fresco.
Friday to Sunday 17:00
Collicola Palace
Temporary exhibitions.
Thursday at 18:00 – Giovanni Carandente. Archives and Documents
Thursday 6pm – Astanze di Stefano Di Stasio .
Thursday 6 p.m. – Work in Progress – Works from the Marignoli di Montecorona Collection.
Thursday 6pm – Drawings by Giuseppe Penone
A noble stroll.
Friday to Sunday at 18:00
Temple of Clitumnus
A monument that has fascinated for centuries.
Friday to Sunday 19:00
Participation fees
Full price € 4.00
Reduced price € 3,00 from 7 to 17 years old and for Spoleto Card holders
Free for children up to 6 years old
Subject to purchase of museum entrance ticket.
Participation in guided tours is subject to compliance with the current Covid-19 regulations.
Guided tours are limited in number and booking is compulsory.
Information and bookings:.
Sistema Museo | Wednesday to Monday | 0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it
FROM ABOVE THE TOWERS
Guided tours of the defensive walkways of the fortress
From Saturday 31 July 2021 guided tours of the defensive walkways of the Albornoz Fortress are back.
Sistema Museo in collaboration with the Direzione Regionale Musei dell’Umbria – Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto is promoting special guided tours of the defensive walkways of the fortress from which it is possible to dominate the valley and admire the fascinating panorama. The visits will make it possible to relate the landscape to the defensive function of the fortress and its strategic position in the territory.
Visits to the defensive walkways are scheduled:.
Mondays and Thursdays – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon – 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Participation fees
Full price € 4.00
Reduced price € 3,00 from 7 to 17 years old and for Spoleto Card holders
Free for children up to 6 years old
Subject to prior purchase of the monument entrance ticket.
Participation in the guided tours is subject to compliance with the current Covid-19 regulations.
Guided tours are limited in number and booking is compulsory.
Information and reservations:.
Thursday to Sunday and Monday
Museum System 0743.224952
museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
On Saturday 25 September, for the European Heritage Days 2021 – Cultural Heritage: ALL Included! – there will be an extraordinary opening of the Roman House, from 19.00 to 22.00, at the symbolic cost of 1 euro.
Sunday 26 September will see the Centuries of history in your hands event, a tactile visit to the three-dimensional model of the Basilica di San Salvatore, from 10.30 to 12.30 and from 16.00 to 18.00 in the foyer of the Teatro Caio Melisso.
Free activity with a limited number of participants, reservation is compulsory.
For information and reservations:
Sistema Museo | Wednesday to Monday Tel. 0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it
Guided tours and readings at the World Heritage Site
On the occasion of the European Heritage Days on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 September, the Direzione Regionale – Musei dell’Umbria and the Municipality of Campello sul Clitunno have scheduled guided tours, organised by Sistema Museo, to the Tempietto sul Clitunno, recognised by Unesco as a World Heritage Site as part of the serial site “The Lombards in Italy: places of power (568-774 AD)”.
On the evening of Saturday 25th September, the Temple of Clitumnus will be open from 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. at the symbolic entrance fee of 1 euro. For the occasion, at 7.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m., a guide will explain the history of the site.
On Sunday 26th September at 11:00 a.m. there will be a guided tour “The temple of Clitumnus… a little Lombard treasure” and at 4:30 p.m. there will be Readings of special stories, tactile books…ALL INCLUDED! for families and children from 3 to 8 years old.
Guided tours are limited to a maximum of participants and booking is compulsory.
For information and reservations: Sistema Museo | Wednesday to Monday Tel. 0743. 275085 | tempiettodelclitunno@sistemamuseo.it
Participation in all scheduled guided tours is subject to the current Covid-19 regulations.
In case of bad weather the scheduled activities will be cancelled.
Special night opening and guided tours to Rocca Albornoz for the European Heritage Days
On the occasion of the European Heritage Days 2021 – Cultural Heritage: ALL INCLUDED! – Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of September, the National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto and the Regional Directorate Museums of Umbria, in collaboration with Sistema Museo, propose a series of events at the Rocca Albornoz.
On Saturday, September 25, the fortress and the National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto will be open from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. (last admission at 9:45 p.m.) at the symbolic entrance fee of 1 euro.
From 19:30 on Saturday, September 25 Feel that story sensory guided tour for blind and visually impaired.
It will be possible to participate in exclusive guided tours of the defensive walkways at 19:30 – 20:00 – 20:45. Starting from sunset, a guide will show the wonderful view from the top of the patrol walkways, made even more fascinating by the night light.
On Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of September, there will be guided visits to the defensive walkways of the fortress at 15:00 – 16:00 – 17:00.
In case of bad weather the visit to the defensive walkways will be replaced with a guided tour of the pictorial cycle of the Camera Pinta.
Prices (upon purchase of the entrance ticket to the monument):
full € 4.00 / reduced € 3.00 from 7 to 17 years and for holders of the Spoleto Card / Free under 6 years.
The guided tour Feel that story has a maximum number of participants with compulsory reservation, subject to availability, by 13:00 on Friday, September 24, 2021.
Guided tours of the defensive walkways has a maximum number of participants and reservations are required while spaces last.
Participation in all scheduled guided tours requires compliance with current Covid-19 regulations. For information and reservations: Sistema Museo | from Thursday to Monday Tel. 0743.224952 | museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
Artistic director Marco Tonelli proposes a journey through experimentation, writing, drawing and painting
Opening to the public on 26 June. Exhibitions will be open until 26 September
There will be four exhibitions organised by the City of Spoleto at Palazzo Collicola on the occasion of the 64th Festival Of 2 Worlds. Under the direction of Marco Tonelli, the artistic proposals of this summer 2021 (the opening is scheduled for 26 June and will be open until 26 September) will be a journey between experimentation, writing, drawings and painting, within different conceptual paths developed, in some cases, in periods apparently distant and ideally distant. Giuseppe Penone: Disegni Curated by Marco Tonelli, the exhibition, conceived together with the artist, will be set up in the inner rooms of the Modern Art Gallery. Promoted by the Festival Of Two Worlds, it is ideally inserted in the tradition of exhibitions of drawings by great modern and contemporary artists, such as MoMA’s American Drawings (1961), Modern Italian Drawings (1962), Willem de Kooning: drawings (1969), James Ensor. Drawings and etchings (1981), Balthus: drawings and watercolours (1982), which were held in Spoleto as part of the Festival. An exhibition of this kind, devoted exclusively to drawings, is the first to be held by Penone in Italy, following the one held at the Drawing Center in New York in 2007.One hundred and sixty authors for 220 works including short stories, poems, photographs and comic strips.
The concluding event of the national competition is scheduled for Saturday, September 25
It is called Spoleto Calling 2021 – Stories from the province the national competition in which 160 authors participated for a total of about 220 works presented. The event, conceived and organized by the group of Spoleto’s debutant writers “Borgowriters”, members of the Cultural Association “Teude”, is sponsored by the City of Spoleto and the Province of Perugia and supported by the Ca.Ri.Spo Foundation.
Italian writer Massimo Carlotto, assisted by journalist Luca Raffaelli for the section “comic strips”, presides over the technical jury that will evaluate narrative tales, thrillers, poems, photographies and comic strips.
The final event of “Spoleto Calling 2021 – Stories from the province”, is scheduled for Saturday, September 25.
The works, before being submitted to the evaluation of the technical jury, have been examined by a popular jury formed by seventy citizens mainly resident in Spoleto.
On the day of the award ceremony the anthology containing all the award-winning works of Spoleto Calling – Storie di provincia, edition 2021, published by Era Nuova, will be presented and distributed.
GUIDED WALKING TOURS OF SPOLETO
EVERY DAY (advance booking required)
Morning: 10h00
Afternoon: 16h00
Itinerary (2 hours): starting point at Piazza della Libertà, visit of the Roman Theatre, Arch of Drusus and Germanicus, Piazza del Mercato, Cathedral, walk around the Fortress, looking at the Fortress and the Bridge
Meeting point: Piazza della Libertà, in front of the Info Box, 10 minutes before departure
ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED
For information and booking:
Ph. +39 075 815227/28
emergency number: +39 339 3390103
e-mail: info@assoguide.it
Organization: AGTU (Associazione Guide Turistiche Umbria)
Tours are led by Authorized Tourist Guides
IMPERATOR. MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN AND OTHER CAESARS
by and with Stefano de Majo
On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, Saturday 25 September, at 6.30 p.m., the Roman Theatre in Spoleto will be staging Imperator. Memoirs of Hadrian and other Caesars by and with Stefano de Majo.
In the text, taken from Marguerite Yourcenar’s masterpiece, there are references to Shakespeare and Camus. The philosopher emperor Hadrian will tell about himself and his world as a man of today, stripping himself of his imperial robes and, despite two thousand years of history behind him, he will also end up talking about us.
The show, which is also part of the Menotti Art Festival programme, will combine theatre with dance and classical music with Roman dancer Simone Martinelli and live music by Emanuela Boccacani. The shadows of the memories evoked will be interpreted by Katia Scimiterna, Maela Pezza, Martina Ceccaroni and Matilde Poscia from Spoleto.
The dancers of the Team Dance school will perform choreographies by Carla Binaglia.
The sound and lighting service is provided by Marco and Clarissa Giamminonni and the costumes are by the “Sandro Pertini” professional institute in Terni.
Tickets are on sale in advance at Box 25 in Piazza Garibaldi 25, Spoleto, and at New Simphony in Galleria del Corso, Terni, and can also be purchased on the day of the performance.
The event is promoted by the Ministry of Culture, by the Direzione Musei della Regione Umbria and by the Pro Loco di Monteluco di Spoleto, with the contribution of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto. The Green Pass is required for admission.
Saturday, September 25, 9.30 pm
UMBRIA GREEN FESTIVAL – O tu ch’onori scienzia e arte. Science and Nature in Dante
With Valerio Rossi Albertini
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Valerio Rossi Albertini, physicist-chemist, first researcher at the National Research Council, professor of Science Dissemination at the University of Rome 2 and television popularizer. For the first time he will also be the actor, author and director of a show conceived for Umbria Green Festival, focusing on Dante and his relationship with Science and Nature. Through films, declamation of verses, empirical demonstrations, Albertini will make us know all the scientific aspects within the Divine Comedy through a recital/reading from the work of the”Sommo Poeta”. The show will be entitled: O tu ch’onori scienzia e arte (O thou, who every art and science valuest!).
Dante had studied in depth the science of his time and wrote the Convivio, the first treatise of scientific divulgation in the vernacular language, the same language of the Comedy, just to educate those who had not had the opportunity to study scientific disciplines. With the same spirit, Dante inserts in the Divine Comedy solid and coherent models of astronomy and geodesy, believing that high poetry can never be separated from the knowledge of the world. In fact, when he addresses his teacher Virgil in the presence of the Great Spirits, he attests to his scientific and poetic merits: “O thou, who every art and science valu’st” Inf. IV, 73.
With the use of mechanical and audiovisual models, introduced by readings of passages from the Divine Comedy, then paraphrased to fully grasp the meaning, the show / conference will ideally lead the public through the three realms of the Underworld, with explanations, anecdotes, paradoxes and references to the following ages, that only a universal genius like Dante can inspire at a distance of seven centuries after his death.
The event was organized with the support of funds “POR FESR Umbria 2014-2020 – Az. 3.2.1 – Public Notice for participation in Live Shows Project”.
FREE EVENT UPON RESERVATION: https://ticketitalia.com/valerio-rossi-albertini-o-tu-ch-onori-scienzia-e-arte
MUSEUM MASTERPIECES
Thematic guided tours in museums
SEPTEMBER 2021
Themed guided tours Museum Masterpieces by Sistema Museo, in collaboration with the Direzione Regionale Musei dell’Umbria – Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto – Tempietto sul Clitunno, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Municipality of Campello sul Clitunno continue. These are special thematic guided tours of the collections of the Spoleto Card museums.
The scheduled guided tours are an opportunity to deepen and discover the precious historical and artistic heritage of Spoleto and Campello sul Clitunno.
CALENDAR OF GUIDED TOURS – SEPTEMBER 2021
Roman House
The Roman house, mosaics and wall paintings
Thursday to Sunday 15:30
Church of St John and St Paul
The painting cycle and the Thomas Becket fresco.
Friday to Sunday 17:00
Collicola Palace
Temporary exhibitions.
Thursday at 18:00 – Giovanni Carandente. Archives and Documents
Thursday 6pm – Astanze di Stefano Di Stasio .
Thursday 6 p.m. – Work in Progress – Works from the Marignoli di Montecorona Collection.
Thursday 6pm – Drawings by Giuseppe Penone
A noble stroll.
Friday to Sunday at 18:00
Temple of Clitumnus
A monument that has fascinated for centuries.
Friday to Sunday 19:00
Participation fees
Full price € 4.00
Reduced price € 3,00 from 7 to 17 years old and for Spoleto Card holders
Free for children up to 6 years old
Subject to purchase of museum entrance ticket.
Participation in guided tours is subject to compliance with the current Covid-19 regulations.
Guided tours are limited in number and booking is compulsory.
Information and bookings:.
Sistema Museo | Wednesday to Monday | 0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it
FROM ABOVE THE TOWERS
Guided tours of the defensive walkways of the fortress
From Saturday 31 July 2021 guided tours of the defensive walkways of the Albornoz Fortress are back.
Sistema Museo in collaboration with the Direzione Regionale Musei dell’Umbria – Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto is promoting special guided tours of the defensive walkways of the fortress from which it is possible to dominate the valley and admire the fascinating panorama. The visits will make it possible to relate the landscape to the defensive function of the fortress and its strategic position in the territory.
Visits to the defensive walkways are scheduled:.
Mondays and Thursdays – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon – 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Participation fees
Full price € 4.00
Reduced price € 3,00 from 7 to 17 years old and for Spoleto Card holders
Free for children up to 6 years old
Subject to prior purchase of the monument entrance ticket.
Participation in the guided tours is subject to compliance with the current Covid-19 regulations.
Guided tours are limited in number and booking is compulsory.
Information and reservations:.
Thursday to Sunday and Monday
Museum System 0743.224952
museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
On Saturday 25 September, for the European Heritage Days 2021 – Cultural Heritage: ALL Included! – there will be an extraordinary opening of the Roman House, from 19.00 to 22.00, at the symbolic cost of 1 euro.
Sunday 26 September will see the Centuries of history in your hands event, a tactile visit to the three-dimensional model of the Basilica di San Salvatore, from 10.30 to 12.30 and from 16.00 to 18.00 in the foyer of the Teatro Caio Melisso.
Free activity with a limited number of participants, reservation is compulsory.
For information and reservations:
Sistema Museo | Wednesday to Monday Tel. 0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it
Guided tours and readings at the World Heritage Site
On the occasion of the European Heritage Days on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 September, the Direzione Regionale – Musei dell’Umbria and the Municipality of Campello sul Clitunno have scheduled guided tours, organised by Sistema Museo, to the Tempietto sul Clitunno, recognised by Unesco as a World Heritage Site as part of the serial site “The Lombards in Italy: places of power (568-774 AD)”.
On the evening of Saturday 25th September, the Temple of Clitumnus will be open from 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. at the symbolic entrance fee of 1 euro. For the occasion, at 7.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m., a guide will explain the history of the site.
On Sunday 26th September at 11:00 a.m. there will be a guided tour “The temple of Clitumnus… a little Lombard treasure” and at 4:30 p.m. there will be Readings of special stories, tactile books…ALL INCLUDED! for families and children from 3 to 8 years old.
Guided tours are limited to a maximum of participants and booking is compulsory.
For information and reservations: Sistema Museo | Wednesday to Monday Tel. 0743. 275085 | tempiettodelclitunno@sistemamuseo.it
Participation in all scheduled guided tours is subject to the current Covid-19 regulations.
In case of bad weather the scheduled activities will be cancelled.
Special night opening and guided tours to Rocca Albornoz for the European Heritage Days
On the occasion of the European Heritage Days 2021 – Cultural Heritage: ALL INCLUDED! – Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of September, the National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto and the Regional Directorate Museums of Umbria, in collaboration with Sistema Museo, propose a series of events at the Rocca Albornoz.
On Saturday, September 25, the fortress and the National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto will be open from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. (last admission at 9:45 p.m.) at the symbolic entrance fee of 1 euro.
From 19:30 on Saturday, September 25 Feel that story sensory guided tour for blind and visually impaired.
It will be possible to participate in exclusive guided tours of the defensive walkways at 19:30 – 20:00 – 20:45. Starting from sunset, a guide will show the wonderful view from the top of the patrol walkways, made even more fascinating by the night light.
On Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of September, there will be guided visits to the defensive walkways of the fortress at 15:00 – 16:00 – 17:00.
In case of bad weather the visit to the defensive walkways will be replaced with a guided tour of the pictorial cycle of the Camera Pinta.
Prices (upon purchase of the entrance ticket to the monument):
full € 4.00 / reduced € 3.00 from 7 to 17 years and for holders of the Spoleto Card / Free under 6 years.
The guided tour Feel that story has a maximum number of participants with compulsory reservation, subject to availability, by 13:00 on Friday, September 24, 2021.
Guided tours of the defensive walkways has a maximum number of participants and reservations are required while spaces last.
Participation in all scheduled guided tours requires compliance with current Covid-19 regulations. For information and reservations: Sistema Museo | from Thursday to Monday Tel. 0743.224952 | museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto
from September 26, 2021 to January 6, 2022
Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina
Until January 6, the garden of the Roman Theater and in the National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto will house some artifacts of the plan of reuse of the rubble made by arch. Matteo Ferroni for the Municipality of Norcia, compared with some archaeological finds of the Valnerina. The exhibition, entitled Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina, will be inaugurated by the director Silvia Casciarri on Sunday 26th September at 11 a.m.
The exhibition compares two ways of reconstruction. On the one hand, the philological recomposition of the archaeological fragments into original objects and, on the other, the recomposition of the architectural fragments into new forms and new functions.
Opening hours:
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theater of Spoleto
from Wednesday to Sunday 8:30-19:30 (last entrance at 18:30)
closed Monday and Tuesday
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
Artistic director Marco Tonelli proposes a journey through experimentation, writing, drawing and painting
Opening to the public on 26 June. Exhibitions will be open until 26 September
There will be four exhibitions organised by the City of Spoleto at Palazzo Collicola on the occasion of the 64th Festival Of 2 Worlds. Under the direction of Marco Tonelli, the artistic proposals of this summer 2021 (the opening is scheduled for 26 June and will be open until 26 September) will be a journey between experimentation, writing, drawings and painting, within different conceptual paths developed, in some cases, in periods apparently distant and ideally distant. Giuseppe Penone: Disegni Curated by Marco Tonelli, the exhibition, conceived together with the artist, will be set up in the inner rooms of the Modern Art Gallery. Promoted by the Festival Of Two Worlds, it is ideally inserted in the tradition of exhibitions of drawings by great modern and contemporary artists, such as MoMA’s American Drawings (1961), Modern Italian Drawings (1962), Willem de Kooning: drawings (1969), James Ensor. Drawings and etchings (1981), Balthus: drawings and watercolours (1982), which were held in Spoleto as part of the Festival. An exhibition of this kind, devoted exclusively to drawings, is the first to be held by Penone in Italy, following the one held at the Drawing Center in New York in 2007.GUIDED WALKING TOURS OF SPOLETO
EVERY DAY (advance booking required)
Morning: 10h00
Afternoon: 16h00
Itinerary (2 hours): starting point at Piazza della Libertà, visit of the Roman Theatre, Arch of Drusus and Germanicus, Piazza del Mercato, Cathedral, walk around the Fortress, looking at the Fortress and the Bridge
Meeting point: Piazza della Libertà, in front of the Info Box, 10 minutes before departure
ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED
For information and booking:
Ph. +39 075 815227/28
emergency number: +39 339 3390103
e-mail: info@assoguide.it
Organization: AGTU (Associazione Guide Turistiche Umbria)
Tours are led by Authorized Tourist Guides
FROM ABOVE THE TOWERS
Guided tours of the defensive walkways of the fortress
From Saturday 31 July 2021 guided tours of the defensive walkways of the Albornoz Fortress are back.
Sistema Museo in collaboration with the Direzione Regionale Musei dell’Umbria – Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto is promoting special guided tours of the defensive walkways of the fortress from which it is possible to dominate the valley and admire the fascinating panorama. The visits will make it possible to relate the landscape to the defensive function of the fortress and its strategic position in the territory.
Visits to the defensive walkways are scheduled:.
Mondays and Thursdays – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon – 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Participation fees
Full price € 4.00
Reduced price € 3,00 from 7 to 17 years old and for Spoleto Card holders
Free for children up to 6 years old
Subject to prior purchase of the monument entrance ticket.
Participation in the guided tours is subject to compliance with the current Covid-19 regulations.
Guided tours are limited in number and booking is compulsory.
Information and reservations:.
Thursday to Sunday and Monday
Museum System 0743.224952
museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
GUIDED WALKING TOURS OF SPOLETO
EVERY DAY (advance booking required)
Morning: 10h00
Afternoon: 16h00
Itinerary (2 hours): starting point at Piazza della Libertà, visit of the Roman Theatre, Arch of Drusus and Germanicus, Piazza del Mercato, Cathedral, walk around the Fortress, looking at the Fortress and the Bridge
Meeting point: Piazza della Libertà, in front of the Info Box, 10 minutes before departure
ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED
For information and booking:
Ph. +39 075 815227/28
emergency number: +39 339 3390103
e-mail: info@assoguide.it
Organization: AGTU (Associazione Guide Turistiche Umbria)
Tours are led by Authorized Tourist Guides
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
GUIDED WALKING TOURS OF SPOLETO
EVERY DAY (advance booking required)
Morning: 10h00
Afternoon: 16h00
Itinerary (2 hours): starting point at Piazza della Libertà, visit of the Roman Theatre, Arch of Drusus and Germanicus, Piazza del Mercato, Cathedral, walk around the Fortress, looking at the Fortress and the Bridge
Meeting point: Piazza della Libertà, in front of the Info Box, 10 minutes before departure
ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED
For information and booking:
Ph. +39 075 815227/28
emergency number: +39 339 3390103
e-mail: info@assoguide.it
Organization: AGTU (Associazione Guide Turistiche Umbria)
Tours are led by Authorized Tourist Guides
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto
from September 26, 2021 to January 6, 2022
Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina
Until January 6, the garden of the Roman Theater and in the National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto will house some artifacts of the plan of reuse of the rubble made by arch. Matteo Ferroni for the Municipality of Norcia, compared with some archaeological finds of the Valnerina. The exhibition, entitled Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina, will be inaugurated by the director Silvia Casciarri on Sunday 26th September at 11 a.m.
The exhibition compares two ways of reconstruction. On the one hand, the philological recomposition of the archaeological fragments into original objects and, on the other, the recomposition of the architectural fragments into new forms and new functions.
Opening hours:
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theater of Spoleto
from Wednesday to Sunday 8:30-19:30 (last entrance at 18:30)
closed Monday and Tuesday
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
GUIDED WALKING TOURS OF SPOLETO
EVERY DAY (advance booking required)
Morning: 10h00
Afternoon: 16h00
Itinerary (2 hours): starting point at Piazza della Libertà, visit of the Roman Theatre, Arch of Drusus and Germanicus, Piazza del Mercato, Cathedral, walk around the Fortress, looking at the Fortress and the Bridge
Meeting point: Piazza della Libertà, in front of the Info Box, 10 minutes before departure
ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED
For information and booking:
Ph. +39 075 815227/28
emergency number: +39 339 3390103
e-mail: info@assoguide.it
Organization: AGTU (Associazione Guide Turistiche Umbria)
Tours are led by Authorized Tourist Guides
Wednesday 29 September – 21h00
18 TALES OF THE HIDDEN ZADDIK
Teatro Nuovo G.C. Menotti
The four members of Klezmerata Fiorentina (Igor Polesitsky on violin, Riccardo Crocilla on clarinet, Francesco Furlanich on bandoneon and Riccardo Donati on double bass), all of them soloists for the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, will act as spokesmen for traditional tales of Ukrainian Jewish mysticism.
The listener-traveller is led by the hand to board the carriage of a magic train, the 7:40 Train of Life, from which he will get off aware that existence passes like a Proustian, Bergsonian comedy – here divided into five parts: Five stories of the Lost Bride, To Istanbul and Back, Visions of the Southern Steppes, Three Sacred Melodies, and an untitled section made up of three pieces: Yoshke’s Leaving, Lament and Train of Life (7:40) – always wondering why, until the epilogue Question and Answer: (Why? – And why not?).
Research carried out by Igor Polesitsky has brought these musical stories back to life through the voices of the four instruments of the Klezmerata Fiorentina.
That magic train of life calls. There are no arrival stations, only transit stations, only many possibilities to choose how to travel. That concluding Train of Life (7:40) is Bergsonian, it is the time of consciousness, it is a ball of yarn that unravels little by little, containing the colours of past life, those of present life and those of future life, yet to be discovered.
A traditional, yet innovative musical event, definitely not to be missed.
organised by Filarmonica Umbria Association
admission fee – advance sale on www.vivaticket.com
info and reservations: 3714592282 Monday to Friday 10-13
Tickets:
Full: € 12,00 | Reduced: € 10,00 (over 65 years old) | Students € 5,00 (up to 25 years old) |Filarmonica Umbra members € 0,50 (Not on Vivaticket)
SPOLETO D’ESTATE: DOWNLOAD FULL PROGRAMME
MUSEUM MASTERPIECES
Thematic guided tours in museums
SEPTEMBER 2021
Themed guided tours Museum Masterpieces by Sistema Museo, in collaboration with the Direzione Regionale Musei dell’Umbria – Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto – Tempietto sul Clitunno, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Municipality of Campello sul Clitunno continue. These are special thematic guided tours of the collections of the Spoleto Card museums.
The scheduled guided tours are an opportunity to deepen and discover the precious historical and artistic heritage of Spoleto and Campello sul Clitunno.
CALENDAR OF GUIDED TOURS – SEPTEMBER 2021
Roman House
The Roman house, mosaics and wall paintings
Thursday to Sunday 15:30
Church of St John and St Paul
The painting cycle and the Thomas Becket fresco.
Friday to Sunday 17:00
Collicola Palace
Temporary exhibitions.
Thursday at 18:00 – Giovanni Carandente. Archives and Documents
Thursday 6pm – Astanze di Stefano Di Stasio .
Thursday 6 p.m. – Work in Progress – Works from the Marignoli di Montecorona Collection.
Thursday 6pm – Drawings by Giuseppe Penone
A noble stroll.
Friday to Sunday at 18:00
Temple of Clitumnus
A monument that has fascinated for centuries.
Friday to Sunday 19:00
Participation fees
Full price € 4.00
Reduced price € 3,00 from 7 to 17 years old and for Spoleto Card holders
Free for children up to 6 years old
Subject to purchase of museum entrance ticket.
Participation in guided tours is subject to compliance with the current Covid-19 regulations.
Guided tours are limited in number and booking is compulsory.
Information and bookings:.
Sistema Museo | Wednesday to Monday | 0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it
FROM ABOVE THE TOWERS
Guided tours of the defensive walkways of the fortress
From Saturday 31 July 2021 guided tours of the defensive walkways of the Albornoz Fortress are back.
Sistema Museo in collaboration with the Direzione Regionale Musei dell’Umbria – Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto is promoting special guided tours of the defensive walkways of the fortress from which it is possible to dominate the valley and admire the fascinating panorama. The visits will make it possible to relate the landscape to the defensive function of the fortress and its strategic position in the territory.
Visits to the defensive walkways are scheduled:.
Mondays and Thursdays – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon – 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Participation fees
Full price € 4.00
Reduced price € 3,00 from 7 to 17 years old and for Spoleto Card holders
Free for children up to 6 years old
Subject to prior purchase of the monument entrance ticket.
Participation in the guided tours is subject to compliance with the current Covid-19 regulations.
Guided tours are limited in number and booking is compulsory.
Information and reservations:.
Thursday to Sunday and Monday
Museum System 0743.224952
museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto
from September 26, 2021 to January 6, 2022
Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina
Until January 6, the garden of the Roman Theater and in the National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto will house some artifacts of the plan of reuse of the rubble made by arch. Matteo Ferroni for the Municipality of Norcia, compared with some archaeological finds of the Valnerina. The exhibition, entitled Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina, will be inaugurated by the director Silvia Casciarri on Sunday 26th September at 11 a.m.
The exhibition compares two ways of reconstruction. On the one hand, the philological recomposition of the archaeological fragments into original objects and, on the other, the recomposition of the architectural fragments into new forms and new functions.
Opening hours:
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theater of Spoleto
from Wednesday to Sunday 8:30-19:30 (last entrance at 18:30)
closed Monday and Tuesday
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
GUIDED WALKING TOURS OF SPOLETO
EVERY DAY (advance booking required)
Morning: 10h00
Afternoon: 16h00
Itinerary (2 hours): starting point at Piazza della Libertà, visit of the Roman Theatre, Arch of Drusus and Germanicus, Piazza del Mercato, Cathedral, walk around the Fortress, looking at the Fortress and the Bridge
Meeting point: Piazza della Libertà, in front of the Info Box, 10 minutes before departure
ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED
For information and booking:
Ph. +39 075 815227/28
emergency number: +39 339 3390103
e-mail: info@assoguide.it
Organization: AGTU (Associazione Guide Turistiche Umbria)
Tours are led by Authorized Tourist Guides
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto
from September 26, 2021 to January 6, 2022
Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina
Until January 6, the garden of the Roman Theater and in the National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto will house some artifacts of the plan of reuse of the rubble made by arch. Matteo Ferroni for the Municipality of Norcia, compared with some archaeological finds of the Valnerina. The exhibition, entitled Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina, will be inaugurated by the director Silvia Casciarri on Sunday 26th September at 11 a.m.
The exhibition compares two ways of reconstruction. On the one hand, the philological recomposition of the archaeological fragments into original objects and, on the other, the recomposition of the architectural fragments into new forms and new functions.
Opening hours:
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theater of Spoleto
from Wednesday to Sunday 8:30-19:30 (last entrance at 18:30)
closed Monday and Tuesday
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto
from September 26, 2021 to January 6, 2022
Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina
Until January 6, the garden of the Roman Theater and in the National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto will house some artifacts of the plan of reuse of the rubble made by arch. Matteo Ferroni for the Municipality of Norcia, compared with some archaeological finds of the Valnerina. The exhibition, entitled Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina, will be inaugurated by the director Silvia Casciarri on Sunday 26th September at 11 a.m.
The exhibition compares two ways of reconstruction. On the one hand, the philological recomposition of the archaeological fragments into original objects and, on the other, the recomposition of the architectural fragments into new forms and new functions.
Opening hours:
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theater of Spoleto
from Wednesday to Sunday 8:30-19:30 (last entrance at 18:30)
closed Monday and Tuesday
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto
from September 26, 2021 to January 6, 2022
Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina
Until January 6, the garden of the Roman Theater and in the National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto will house some artifacts of the plan of reuse of the rubble made by arch. Matteo Ferroni for the Municipality of Norcia, compared with some archaeological finds of the Valnerina. The exhibition, entitled Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina, will be inaugurated by the director Silvia Casciarri on Sunday 26th September at 11 a.m.
The exhibition compares two ways of reconstruction. On the one hand, the philological recomposition of the archaeological fragments into original objects and, on the other, the recomposition of the architectural fragments into new forms and new functions.
Opening hours:
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theater of Spoleto
from Wednesday to Sunday 8:30-19:30 (last entrance at 18:30)
closed Monday and Tuesday
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
The thematic guided tours in museums and trekking in the city are FREE for SPOLETO CARD holders.
The thematic guided tours and trekking in the city are ONLY ON RESERVATION and WITH A LIMITED NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS.
For the TREKKING IN TOWN the RESERVATION is MANDATORY within the 18.00 of the previous Saturday.
Participation in guided tours requires compliance with current Covid-19 regulations.
Those who do not have the SPOLETO CARD will be able to participate:
– to THEMATIC GUIDED TOURS in the museums with a fee of € 3.00 per person, in addition to the museum ticket.
– TREKKING IN THE CITY with a fee of € 5.00 per person, in addition to the museum ticket where applicable.
The SPOLETO CARD is a combined ticket that allows to enter to numerous museal sites of the city and to benefit of particular advantages.
The SPOLETO CARD can be purchased in the participating museums and is valid 7 days.
SPOLETO CARD rates:
Red Card: € 9,50
Green Card: € 8,00 (from 15 to 25 years old, over 65 years old, groups)
Edited by: Sistema Museo, in collaboration with the Municipality of Spoleto.
For information and reservations: Soc.
Soc. Coop. Museum System
Tel and fax 0743 46434 – 0743 224952
E-mail: info@spoletocard.it
Website: www.spoletocard.it
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto
from September 26, 2021 to January 6, 2022
Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina
Until January 6, the garden of the Roman Theater and in the National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto will house some artifacts of the plan of reuse of the rubble made by arch. Matteo Ferroni for the Municipality of Norcia, compared with some archaeological finds of the Valnerina. The exhibition, entitled Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina, will be inaugurated by the director Silvia Casciarri on Sunday 26th September at 11 a.m.
The exhibition compares two ways of reconstruction. On the one hand, the philological recomposition of the archaeological fragments into original objects and, on the other, the recomposition of the architectural fragments into new forms and new functions.
Opening hours:
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theater of Spoleto
from Wednesday to Sunday 8:30-19:30 (last entrance at 18:30)
closed Monday and Tuesday
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto
from September 26, 2021 to January 6, 2022
Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina
Until January 6, the garden of the Roman Theater and in the National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto will house some artifacts of the plan of reuse of the rubble made by arch. Matteo Ferroni for the Municipality of Norcia, compared with some archaeological finds of the Valnerina. The exhibition, entitled Fragments of memories. Reconstructions between architecture and archaeology in Valnerina, will be inaugurated by the director Silvia Casciarri on Sunday 26th September at 11 a.m.
The exhibition compares two ways of reconstruction. On the one hand, the philological recomposition of the archaeological fragments into original objects and, on the other, the recomposition of the architectural fragments into new forms and new functions.
Opening hours:
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theater of Spoleto
from Wednesday to Sunday 8:30-19:30 (last entrance at 18:30)
closed Monday and Tuesday
From June 15 to November 7, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Vatican Museums, the triptych composed of the Madonna Enthroned with Child and Angels, currently housed in the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and the side compartments with the depictions of Saint Paula of Rome and Saint Eustochio, which escaped the fury of the 1703 earthquake, will be reunited and will be visible for the first time.
The exhibition, entitled Late gothic enchantment. The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna, is curated by Adele Breda, referent of the Department for Byzantine-Medieval Art of the Vatican Museums, by Stefania Nardicchi, Curator of the Diocesan Museum of Spoleto, and by Anna Pizzamano, PhD student in “History and Cultural Heritage of the Church” at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On the occasion of the recent restoration of the two side compartments preserved in the Vatican Collection, bearing the images of two little-known saints, Paola of Rome and Eustochio, mother and daughter who lived at the time of St. Jerome (late fourth century), their study was deepened and an attempt was made to find the lost central compartment. The searches led to the Diocesan Museum, where a fragmented table representing a Madonna in throne with the Child between two angels has been identified. The painting, even if missing the lower part, has been recognized as the central part of the triptych. The work adorned in origin the altar of the church of Saint Maria near the castle of Abeto di Preci, from which the name of Maria Santissima di Piè di Castello.
The Madonna di Spoleto was transferred to the Vatican Museums’ Office of Scientific Researches applied to Cultural Heritage, where the various components were thoroughly examined: the wooden essence, the pigments, the engravings and the punches confirmed its full compatibility. With the intention of deepening the study of a painter of very high quality who is not sufficiently known, a later work by the same master was also selected for comparison, the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Two Angels, today kept in the Museum of Sacred Art and Popular Religiousness “Beato Angelico” in Vicchio del Mugello.
There are several reasons that led to this choice. These polyptychs are in fact made by one of the most refined and sought-after Florentine workshops of the time, and used for the liturgical decoration of chapels and parishes in the rural areas of Umbria and Tuscany. The survival of the only table with the Madonna, both in the case of Abeto di Preci and in that of Vicchio, attests, moreover, a devotion never interrupted and an affective and plurisecular bond with the territory, that has resisted also to the dispersion of the side compartments. Thanks to this juxtaposition it is also possible to guess the original dimensions of the Madonna in Spoleto, seriously damaged in the earthquake of 1703.
These works represent two different moments of the stylistic path of the Master of the Straus Madonna, active in Florence between 1385 and 1415, a painter who, from an initial neo-Giottism, slowly opened to the new international style, welcoming in part the style of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina, but always maintaining his original archaic style.
Title: Late Gothic Enchantment, The recomposed triptych of the Master of the Straus Madonna
Venue: Spoleto, Diocesan Museum
Period: 15 June -7 November 2021
Catalog: published by Quattroemme, Perugia
Hours: Every day from 11 to 18. Closed on Mondays.
Tickets: Euro 5,00; free of charge up to 6 years old and disabled people with accompanying person
Information:
Ph.+39 0577 286300 – duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
www.spoletonorcia.it
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8, 22 October – 12 November
SPOLETO JAZZ SEASON
Organized by: Visioninmusica
www.visioninmusica.com
Visioninmusica renews its bond with the city of Spoleto presenting an intriguing edition of Spoleto Jazz Season in a European key. Dynamism, innovation and quality have always been the winning characteristics of Visioninmusica, and the 2021 edition features three fascinating events proposing very different musical forms and languages. This autumn, in the evocative settings of the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti and the Teatro Caio Melisso, great jazz will resound with the piano solo of Enrico Pieranunzi, the Luxembourg trio Reis/Demuth/Wiltgen and the progressive sounds of the Austrian Bartolomey-Bittmann.
Friday 8 October 2021
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, 9.00 p.m.
ENRICO PIERANUNZI – UNLIMITED.
Full price € 25,00
Reduced € 21,00 (Visioninmusica members, under 18, over 65, and for those who buy more than one concert at the same time.
Friday 22 October 2021
Caio Melisso Theatre, 9.00 p.m.
REIS DEMUTH WILTGEN – SLY.
Full price € 20,00
Reduced € 17,00 (Visioninmusica members, under 18, over 65, and for those who buy more than one concert at the same time.
Friday 12 November 2021
Caio Melisso Theatre, 9.00 p.m.
BARTOLOMEYBITTMANN – DYNAMO.
Full price € 20,00
Reduced € 17,00 (Visioninmusica members, under 18, over 65, and for those who buy more than one concert at the same time.
Tickets:
Caffè dello Sport – viale Trento e Trieste 78, Spoleto – Ph. 0039 0743 47796
New Sinfony – galleria del Corso 12, Terni – Ph. 0039 0744 407104
Online: www.vivaticket.it
At the theater’s box office one hour before the performance