Diocesan Museum of Palermo

History

Layout

Room I

Room II - ''Sala dei fondi oro''

• 1171, Madonna of the Pearl, tempera on panel, anonymous, from Santa Maria del Cancelliere church
• 13th century, Madonna della Spersa, tempera on parchment mounted on panel, anonymous, from San Nicolò all'Albergheria church
• 1388, Roll of Dead Brothers, tempera on panel, Antonio Veneziano, commissioned by the Confraternita dei Disciplinanti, from San Nicolò lo Reale church
• 1419, Coronation of the Virgin Mary with St John the Baptist and St Nicholas of Bari, tempera on panel, Master of the Coronations, from San Nicolò lo Reale church.
• 15th century, Abraham and the Three Angels with a Commissioner, with an inscription "tres vidit et unum adoravit", tempera on panel, Master of the Coronations, from the basilica della Santissima Trinità del Cancelliere known as la Magione.
• 15th century, Madonna and Child, tempera on panel, anonymous Tuscan painter, from San Giovanni dei Napoletani church.

  Room III - originally the ''Sala della trifora'', now the ''Sala delle Croci'''

Rooms IV-VI

Room VII

• Madonna, marble with a loggia
• Scenes from the Lives and Martyrdoms of Saint Christina and Saint Nympha, eight panel marble bas-relief, Domenico Gagini.
• XVI secolo, Saint Christina, marble half-bust.

  Room VIII

• Marble candelabra, Antonello Gagini.
• Christ Falling and Crucifixion, marble bas-relief which inspired Raphael's Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary, Antonello Gagini.
• The Flight into Egypt, marble bas-relief, Antonello Gagini.
• 1544, Scenes from the Passion, marble bas-reliefs, Fazio and Vincenzo Gagini.
• The Recognition of the True Cross, marble bas-relief, Fazio Gagini.
• Saint Benedict, Saint Basil or Saint Bernard, marble statue, Fazio Gagini.
• 1535 - 1557, Saint Restituta of Africa, marble statue produced for the monastery church of Santa Chiara in Palermo, Antonello Gagini and Giacomo Gagini.

  Room IX

Room X

Room XI

Room XII

Room XIII

Selected works

• 1685 - 1686, Abraham and the Three Angels, oil on canvas, Pietro Aquila.
• 1622, Visitation, painting on panel, produced for the Congregazione di Santa Maria di Gesù, Pietro D'Asaro.
• 14th century, Virgin Mary with Saints, triptych, Jacopo di Michele
• 14th century, Saint Anne with Saints, triptych, Jacopo di Michele
• 15th century, Aedicula with the Virgin Mary Adoring the Christ Child, with God the Father Blessing, glazed terracotta relief, Andrea della Robbia, from San Nicolò al Borgo church

• 15th century, Saint Barbara, painting on panel, originally from the Cathedral and housed in the 'Antialcova, Cristofaro Faffeo.
• 1580 - 1581, Madonna of the Rosary with Saints, painting on panel from San Giacomo dei Militari church and housed in the Sala Torre, Simone de Wobreck.
• 17th century, Saint Cecilia, painting on canvas, from the former Istituto del Sacro Cuore, then the villa Pignatelli Aragona Cortes at Olivuzza, now housed in the Sala Rossa of the bishops' rooms or in the Sala Novelli, attributed to Andrea Carreca.
• 17th century, Portrait of Monsignor Ferdinando Bazan y Manriquez, Archbishop of Palermo, oil on canvas, housed in the Sala Verde