Ferrara Cathedral Museum

The Museum of the Cathedral in Ferrara collects most of the rare and precious testimonies of the splendor of Renaissance Ferrara still present in the city that was the scene of their creation. The Museum remained in its historic location, a large room overlooking the atrium of the Cathedral, until December 2000 when, in order to meet the modern museographic requests increasingly attentive to the preservation and use of historical and artistic heritage, the need to keep the collections in a new location. The choice fell on the former church of San Romano, adjacent to the Cathedral and also linked to it from a historical point of view, suitably restored, together with the annexed premises, as part of the works created for the Jubilee. In the rich and varied collection of sculptures stand out the extraordinary panels of the Maestro del Mesi (1225-1230 ca.), the majestic Madonna of the pomegranate by Jacopo della Quercia (1403-1406) and the elegant fifteenth-century works by Filippo Solari, Andrea da Carona and Bernardo Rossellino. Also worth mentioning are the grandiose tapestries with the Stories of Saints George and Maurelio woven between 1551-1553 by Johannes Karcher based on a design by Garofalo and Camillo Filippi. The masterpiece of the Museum is represented by the monumental organ doors depicting San Giorgio and the dragon and the Annunciation by Cosmè Tura, among the highest peaks reached by Italian art of the fifteenth century.