Museums
Museo di Arte Religiosa Alpina (Novalesa)
Category: Ancient art
The museum is set up in the rooms of the chapel of the Confraternita del SS. Sacramento, adjacent to the 17th century parish church of Santo Stefano, located in the heart of the town of Novalesa. Very precious works of sacred art have been gathered here from the area of the Valle di Susa, always an important stop along the northern and southern European connection. In the Museo di Arte Religiosa Alpina (Museum of Religious Alpine Art) in Novalesa – part of the Sistema Museale Diocesano di Susa (Diocesan Museum System of Susa) – there are works from various historical eras, beginning with the Roman Period, the Longobard, the Carolingian, and the Napoleonic, not to mention an extraordinary collection of objet d’art, among which a relic from late antiquity, a little Longbard case, and several Carolingian and Ottoman ciboria. Among all of these, the reliquary of San Eldrado, abbey of Novalesa during the 9th century, a silversmith work from the Rhine-Meuse area, stands out. The tour, other than the rooms of the Cappella della Confraternita, also includes the adjacent parish church which houses precious canvases from the school of Caravaggio, of Rubens, of Le Moyne, and of Daniele da Volterra, which Napoleone had transferred from Paris to the hospice in Moncenisio and from there to Novalesa.
Information
Please phone for further information and reservations
Via Maestra, 19 - 10050 Novalesa (To)
Tel/Fax: +39.0122.622640
E-mail: museo@centroculturalediocesano.it
www.centroculturalediocesano.it
