Museo Emilio Greco - Orvieto

Museum with works by the great Sicilian artist.

The Museum of Modern Art is located on the lower floor of the Palazzo Soliano in Orvieto. Sicilian sculptor Emilio Greco is responsible for building the three current bronze portals of the cathedral that were inserted in place of the previous wooden doors. The museum houses his exhibition of bronze and graphic works, lithographs, etchings and drawings.

Housed on the ground floor of the fourteenth-century Palazzo Soliano. The museum houses 32 bronze sculptures, 60 graphic works including drawings, lithographs and etchings by Emilio Greco, author of the bronze doors of the Cathedral of Orvieto. The original plaster of the monument to Pope John in San Pietro is beautiful.

Interesting museum, with several works in bronze and not, there is a path to follow the artist's studies also chronologically. Worth the visit, if then associated with the Duomo and the other museum of the Duomo itself, the ticket is certainly well spent ..

Apart from the beauty of the artist's statues, it is very interesting to visit the museum / palace to get a pale idea of ​​the beauty of its structure which can only be visited in a small part.

The Opera del Duomo exhibition venue is in the complex of the Papal Palaces and Palazzo Soliano adjacent to the Cathedral. The Museo dell'Opera del Duomo exhibits documents and correspondence relating to the different phases of construction and design of the cathedral as well as numerous decorative elements that were part of the Duomo's equipment (altarpieces, paintings, statues) and that were removed in the nineteenth century in occasion of a global restoration of the cathedral itself to bring it back to its original more sober appearance. The Museum System of the Opera del Duomo of Orvieto - MODO - has as its fulcrum one of the most precious assets of the artistic heritage of humanity: the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, which preserves inside the Cappella Nova or of San Brizio, a place of exceptional value and suggestion. From the fulcrum of the Cathedral, the visit through the museum premises follows the common thread of the history of the city and its Cathedral, retraced through the precious artistic collections that the Fabbriceria has preserved for more than eight centuries. The route intersects the urban fabric of the city, from Piazza del Duomo to the millennial district of San Giovenale and the historic Church of Sant’Agostino. Other museums that are part of the Museomodo exhibition system are: The rooms in the Papal Palaces -Ground floor: gallery of frescoes which includes fragments of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries related to the "great workshop" of Orvieto. -First floor: “Le Stanze delle Meraviglie” and Sala della Maestà: exhibit paintings and sculptures by important artists of the past including Simone Martini, Ippolito Scalza, Cesare Nebbia and Arnolfo di Cambio. -First floor: "Sala delle Sinopie": it houses large panels of the synopies of the fourteenth-century frescoes in the chapel of the Corporal in the Cathedral, detached on the occasion of the restorations carried out between 1975 and 1980. Albèri Library: between the complex of the Papal Palaces and the Cathedral with which it is directly connected, it presents itself as a suggestive environment decorated with precious frescoes; it was built in 1499 to house the library of Archdeacon Antonio Albèri who arranged to leave his collection of over 300 volumes, including manuscripts and precious incunabula, to the Cathedral. Today this evocative exhibition space, part of the museum, houses precious relics of the cathedral including the reliquary made by Ugolino di Vieri to guard the sacred linen stained by the miracle of Bolsena. Palazzo Soliano: the ground floor of this noble papal palace houses the Orvieto museum of modern art with a collection of bronze sculptures, and graphic works by Emilio Greco, a renowned Sicilian sculptor who remained very attached to the city of Orvieto. He is also responsible for the three bronze portals of the cathedral.