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Museo Statale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna [State Museum of Medieval and Modern Art]

Housed in the sixteenth-century Palazzo Bruni Ciocchi, the Museo Statale di Arte Medievale e Moderna is one of the most important cultural institutions in the Arezzo area. With two main art collections, coming from the Municipal Pinacoteca and the Museum of the Laymen's Brotherhood, it contains, in addition to a fine collection of nineteenth-twentieth century paintings, numerous terracottas by Andrea della Robbia and his followers, an important collection of Italian majolica and one of glassware, as well as unusual collections of gemstones and coral. The majolica collection, one of the finest in Italy, contains numerous pharmaceutical jars coming from the Monastery of Camaldoli. Several objects in the glassware collection (beakers, goblets and jars, fabricated in the Tuscan glassworks of the 16th and 18th centuries) come instead from ancient pharmacies.

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Texts by Anna Toscano

English translation by Catherine Frost

Last update 18/mar/2008