National Museum of San Matteo
The National Museum of San Matteo in Pisa (Museo Nazionale di San Matteo) displays works from historic ecclesiastical buildings in the city and Province of Pisa.
National Museum of San Matteo
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- Name
- National Museum of San Matteo Museo Nazionale di San Matteo
- Founded
- 1949
- Headquarters
- Pisa
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The National Museum of San Matteo in Pisa (Museo Nazionale di San Matteo) displays works from historic ecclesiastical buildings in the city and Province of Pisa.
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• Name — National Museum of San Matteo Museo Nazionale di San Matteo • Type — archaeology, Art museum, Historic site • Location — piazza San Matteo 1, lungarno Mediceo, Pisa Italy
History
History
The nucleus of the collection was initially started by a 1796 endowment by the Canon of the Pisa Cathedral, Sebastiano Zucchetti. Further works were added after the Napoleonic closure of many religious establishments, and through the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1893, a local Jewish citizen, Igino Benvenuto Supino, helped found the Pisan Museo Civico. In 1949, the Museo Civico collection help form the nucleus for the present Museo Nazionale, installed in the restored medieval Convent of San Matteo in Soarta.
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1949
National Museum of San Matteo established.
1949
National Museum of San Matteo is recorded from 1949.
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The works span from early medieval period to the 16th century. The collection includes sculptural masterworks by Nicola Pisano and Donatello. It has a rich collection of antique paintings, including works by Berlinghiero Volterrano, Giunta Pisano, Simone Martini, Lippo Memmi, Francesco Traini, Masaccio, Beato Angelico, Benozzo di Lese, and Ghirlandaio. The museum also has a collection of medieval illuminated manuscripts, wooden religious sculpture from 13th century to 15th century, and antique ceramics.
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scholarly publication
- Lighting and visual experience of artworks: Results of a study campaign at the National Museum of San Matteo in Pisa, Italy, Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2020
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2020
- Study on the suitable lighting design of Beato Angelico’s artworks displayed at the National Museum of San Matteo in Pisa (Italy), IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2018
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2018
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- 1.Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali, Visitatori e introiti dei musei
- 2.Scheda del Museo. CeDoMus.
- 3.Chiara Balbarini, Problemi di miniatura del Trecento a Pisa: gli Antifonari di San Francesco, in «Critica d'arte», serie VIII, vol. 63, n. 7 (settembre 2000), Firenze, Edifir, 2000, pp. 44-60.
- 4.Iginio Benvenuto Supino, Catalogo del museo civico di Pisa, Pisa, Nistri, 1894.
- 5.Roberta Castelli, Gli strumenti musicali nelle opere della collezione del Museo Nazionale di San Matteo di Pisa, leggibile online in PDF sul sito del Centro Documentazione Musicale della Toscana.
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