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Capital with male figures
Telamone with dragons
mosaic of Sant'Eustachio
Main portal of Santa Maria del Popolo
Styphore Lion
Leone Stiloforo
Pietà Mantegazza
Apsidal fresco of Sant'Agata al Monte
Wooden model of the Cathedral of Pavia
Wooden model of the cathedral of Pavia
Crypt of Sant'Eusebio
Crypt of Sant'Eusebio
Crypt of Sant'Eusebio
Crypt of Sant'Eusebio
Triumph of Alexander the Great
Reflection
Gallant scene
Portrait of a Malaspina man
Shovel Bottigella
Madonna and Child
Secret accusation
Small cup
Pluteus with peacocks
Senator plate
Pluteus with sea monsters
Capital with male figures
Telamone with dragons
mosaic of Sant'Eustachio
Main portal of Santa Maria del Popolo
Styphore Lion
Leone Stiloforo
Pietà Mantegazza
Apsidal fresco of Sant'Agata al Monte
Wooden model of the Cathedral of Pavia
Wooden model of the cathedral of Pavia
Crypt of Sant'Eusebio
Crypt of Sant'Eusebio
Crypt of Sant'Eusebio
Crypt of Sant'Eusebio
Triumph of Alexander the Great
Reflection
Gallant scene
Portrait of a Malaspina man
Shovel Bottigella
Madonna and Child
Secret accusation
Small cup
Pluteus with peacocks
Senator plate
Pluteus with sea monsters

Apsidal fresco of Sant'Agata al Monte

Anonymous

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Civic Museums of the Visconti Castle

Civic Museums of the Visconti Castle

Viale XI Febbraio, 35, Pavia

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The mythical foundation of the church is attributed to the figure of Pertarito, a pretender to the Lombard throne, who saved himself from a conspiracy for the usurpation of the throne, and in 673 erected a female monastery on the site of his escape. At the center of the fresco there is the Virgin, in the act of being crowned by Christ, inserted in a complex architecture, concluded by three niches, of which the central one houses the dove of the Holy Spirit, surmounted by the Eternal Father holding the Crucifix. Six musician angels are arranged symmetrically on the marble base with geometric decorations. Saints Francis and Clare, founders of the order to which the monastery belonged (Franciscan from 1230), represented with their attributes and monastic clothes on the right, and on the left the saints Primo and Feliciano, whose relics were kept in the church. In the triumphal arch, within grotesque frames, the Four Doctors of the Western Church seated at their desks. In 1895 the apsidal fresco was detached and sold clandestinely to George Gray Bernard, an American sculptor and collector, by the Parisian antiquarian Raoul Heilbronner. The fresco arrived in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1945 and returned by the latter to the city of Pavia: in 1991 it was generously donated to the Civic Museums and has since been exhibited in the Romanesque and Renaissance Section of our museum
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Title: Apsidal fresco of Sant'Agata al Monte

Author: Anonymous

Date: 1502

Technique: Fresco

Displayed in: Civic Museums of the Visconti Castle

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