Among the masterpieces on display are works by Giotto (such as the famous cross painted for the Scrovegni Chapel) and a collection of over 3,000 paintings covering a time span from the 14th to the 19th century.
A chronological journey, allowing you to appreciate the stylistic and thematic evolution of Venetian and Paduan painting and sculpture. Particularly valuable is the Emo Capodilista Collection, which includes over 540 paintings by great masters.
The Museum also offers a rich section of Sculptures, Bronzes, Tapestries, objects of applied art and a Lapidary with architectural and decorative fragments from the Middle Ages to the fall of the Venetian Republic.
Some of the masterpieces of important artists of Venetian and Italian painting from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century:
Cross painted by Giotto (early 14th century), created for the Scrovegni Chapel, one of the museum’s symbolic masterpieces.
The twenty-eight tables of the Angels by Guariento da Arpo, part of the decoration of the private chapel of the Carraresi palace, an important testimony of medieval Paduan painting.
Works by Giorgione, including the famous Leda and the Swan and the Rural Idyll, fundamental examples of Venetian Renaissance painting.
Paintings by Titian Vecellio, such as the Birth of Adonis
The Altarpiece of Santa Giustina by Girolamo Romanino, a sacred work of great importance commissioned by the Paduan monks.
Paintings by Paolo Veronese, including the Martyrdom of Saint Justina
Works by artists such as Tintoretto, Padovanino
The Portrait of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman to graduate in the world, and the portrait of Emilia Papafava Borromeo, important representatives of local portraiture
The Museum is part of the Museums Civici agli Eremitani (Eremitani Museum) which also include, in the immediate vicinity, the Archaeological Museum and the Cappella degli Scrovegni (Giotto’s Chapel).
The Civic Museum is housed in the cloisters of the nearby church of the Eremitani
Museum of Medieval and Modern Art
Piazza Eremitani 8
Padua
Veneto – Italy
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