Rick Steves Italy 2017 by Rick Steves

Author:Rick Steves
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avalon Travel
Published: 2016-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

▲▲Duomo Museum

Located in a corner of the Duomo’s grand but unfinished extension (to the right as you face the main facade), Siena’s most enjoyable museum (Museo dell’Opera e Panorama) was built to house the cathedral’s art. Stand eye-to-eye with the saints and angels who once languished, unknown, in the church’s upper reaches (where copies are found today).

Cost and Hours: €7, daily March-Oct 10:30-19:00, Nov-Feb until 17:30, videoguide-€4 (€6/2 people) but you’ll do fine with just the commentary in this listing, tel. 0577-286-300, www.operaduomo.siena.it.

Visiting the Museum: Start on the ground floor, which houses the church’s original statues, mainly from the facade and exterior. After descending a few steps, turn your back on the hall of statues and a wrought-iron gate. You’re now face-to-face with Donatello’s Madonna and Child. In this round, carved relief, a slender and tender Mary gazes down at her chubby-cheeked baby. Her sad eyes say that she knows the eventual fate of her son.

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