Museo Diocesano
Sacred-art museum in a restored medieval Dominican cloister, with gilded panels and centuries of devotional works.
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This guide to Museo Diocesano in Milan follows the medieval cloister behind the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio, home to Dominican friars since 1220, through its ruin in the 1943 bombing of Milan and the decades it sat broken. It traces Cardinal Carlo Martini's push to restore the space and fill it with sacred art the Archdiocese had gathered since Bishop Ildefonso Schuster first dreamed of a museum here in 1931. Along the way it lingers on forty-one gilded medieval panels donated by a collector named Crespi, and on drawings by Delacroix, Ingres and Van Gogh.
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