Diocesan Museum

Excellent museum, I was accompanied by a guide (who unfortunately spoke English with difficulty, because the one who spoke English was busy on the phone, and moderately polite... but let's move on), a lovely person, and a really sober and nice place . I put the 5th star just because it's the only place I've seen that has extremely well preserved linen wall tapestry, it's impressive.

A stone's throw from the Cathedral and housed in its primitive cloister, the Diocesan Museum is an essential step in the knowledge and history of the city. In addition to the intrinsic beauty of the medieval building - the ancient Cloister of the Canons -, it preserves valuable pieces including paintings, sculptures, textiles and jewelery, in a chronological period that starts from Roman archaeological remains up to the modern era. . Among the various works on display, some canvases by Luca Cambiaso - the Last Supper, the Crucifixion and God the Father blessing -, undoubtedly the most internationally known Ligurian artist, thanks to the complexity of his artistic experience, his quality as a draftsman and above all to his work at the Escorial in Madrid, which confirms his notoriety in the panorama of the late sixteenth century in Europe. Also worthy of mention are the luminous "gold backgrounds" of Barnaba da Modena (14th and 15th centuries), the funerary monument of Cardinal Luca Fieschi, a work from a Pisan workshop (14th century), the Madonna Enthroned by Perin del Vaga (15th century) . XVI) and the wooden sculptures by Anton Maria Maragliano (XVIII century). Absolute unicum in the European - if not world - panorama are the so-called Blu di Genova, very rare sixteenth-century '' jeans fabric '' cloths dyed in blue - and for this reason considered the ancestor of Jeans - painted in white monochrome and depicting the Stories of the Passion of Christ, that is, all those episodes in the life of Jesus that prelude to his Crucifixion. The sheets have particular shapes and holes, due to the fact that on Holy Thursday they were assembled in the form of a small building (commonly called the Sepulcher), into which one could enter to adore the Eucharist. ?➡ the Diocesan Museum `` A two steps from the Cathedral '' can be easily reached by motorbike by car or by public transport. ?.? ?

Both the contents and the container are worth a visit. It can be accessed with a cumulative ticket which also allows you to visit the Treasury of the Cathedral of San Lorenzo. The entrance to the Diocesan Museum is located behind the cathedral, in via Tommaso Reggio. Residence of the Canons of the Cathedral starting from the 12th century, it is structured around a beautiful cloister. The works that are kept there, mostly pictorial, were made over a period of time ranging from the '400 to the' 600, and are distributed between the ground floor and first floor. This last floor hosts a comparison between ancient productions and those of a contemporary artist, Giannetto Fieschi. Interesting, as well as unique, are the Towels of the Passion, from the sixteenth century, painted on jeans fabric.