Museo Diocesano of Palermo

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This houses the welcome desk as well as artworks from the Norman and Swabian eras.

This contains works from the 14th and 15th centuries as well as imported 14th century Pisa works:

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" (three see and one adores), 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.

As its current name suggests, it houses crosses.

Objects from excavations at the Archepiscopal Palace from the Archaic age, Byzantine period and medieval era.

This houses 15th-century sculptures by artists such as Domenico Gagini, Pietro de Bonitate and Francesco Laurana. Those by Gagini are:

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.

This contains 16th-century sculptural fragments from Palermo Cathedral by Antonello Gagini and his workshop, removed during Ferdinando Fuga's rebuilding, along with a plaster reconstruction by Prof. Salvatore Rizzuti and his students at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo and the sculptures from the Tribuna of Antonello Gagini in the cathedral.

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. …

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

Restored works with temporary exhibitions:

15th century, Saint Barbara, painting on panel, originally from the cathedral and housed in the 'Antialcova (temporary exhibition), 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 (temporary exhibition space), 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 (temporary exhibitions)