Museum of Sacred Art - Siena

Siena - SI Tuscany

INFO

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.

PROJECT

• Reconstruction of the flooring with honed 30x15x2.1 rectangular tiles.