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The museum of sacred art is open all year.
Timetable:
Saturday: 9:30-12:30 - 14:30-18:30
Sunday: 9:30-13:00 - 14:30-19:00
(special opening for groups on thursday is available)
The Museum of the Treasure of Santa Maria dell’Impruneta is on the first floor of the great loggia, close to the Basilica. It preserves the extraordinary artistic heritage, including all the donations made by the Medici Grand Dukes and by the most noble Tuscan families over the centuries in order to show their gratitude to the Virgin of Impruneta.
The most significant groups of the displayed objects are the gifts offered to the Virgin during the two important processions which took place in 1633 and in 1711.
Among the principal categories to which the displayed objects pertain there are: jewellery, fabrics, illuminated codexes. The main room is dedicated to this first section, in which silver and rock crystals stand out for their magnificent reflections. Aside from the splendid collections of votive vases, the astylar cross (1425) ascribed to Lorenzo Ghiberti needs to be mentioned, as well as the reliquary of the Saint Cross (1620) ascribed to the famous goldsmith Cosimo Merlini. It was commissioned by Maria Maddalena d’Austria, wife of Cosimo II de’ Medici.
The second section includes the collection of sacred hangings. Among them there are six XVI-XVIII century capes, which protected the Image of the Virgin, and the altar table cloth made in embroidered gauze (XVI century). The small pillow that comes from the sepulchral vestments of the Bishop Antonio degli Agli (before 1477) needs to be mentioned. It is a rare and antique example of patchwork, which utilises fragments of precious recovered fabrics.
The section with the illuminated codexes is important both for the number of pieces and for their quality: 11 manuscripts date back to the XIV and the XVI centuries. There also are some impressive terracotta bricks made in various periods of time, which depict the Virgin of Impruneta and some soppani (made in Impruneta terracotta), which were used as ceiling decorations.
Note:
The museum joins the circuits Chianti Musei and Piccoli Grandi Musei.
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