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Siena – Museum of Sacred Art
The new Museum of Sacred Art in SIENA (TUSCANY) is in rooms adjacent
to the Oratory of San Bernardino, completely restored for this use
in 1999. A particularly rarefied and timeless atmosphere, it is an
essential point of reference for the history of sacred art in the
territory, with panel paintings of the thirteenth and fourteenth century,
works of the fifteenth and sixteenth century, frescoes by Pietro and
Ambrogio Lorenzetti including the marvelous Madonna del Latte, sculpture
and objects of the goldsmith’s craft. Heart of the Museum is
the rectangular hall of the Upper Oratory and its coffered ceiling
with heads of cherubs on a blue ground. The walls are completely covered
with frescoes of Stories of the Virgin Mary, offering a marvelous
example of Sienese painting of the first fourth of the sixteenth century.
Restoration project
Reconstruction of the flooring with honed 30x15x2.1 rectangular tiles.