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the Museum of S. Francesco in Folloni is a museum structure closely linked to the territory, functional to the enhancement of inland areas and to the preservation of an artistic heritage particularly affected by the 1980 earthquake. Opened to the public on 18 September 1981, expanded in November '82 , contains works recovered in the most affected countries, such as Lioni, Conza della Campania, where artifacts of art have been found that are often authentic discoveries. Currently, most of the works have returned to their places of origin, but those that remain will soon be rearranged in a new museum setting. Among the many silverware, liturgical objects and sacred wall hangings preserved in the museum, the splendid silver processional cross of the Aragonese age, some Neapolitan-made chalices, and above all the fifteenth-century robes of Diego I Cavaniglia, found during the excavations carried out in the convent. Recently restored and analyzed, the doublet and the Count's newspaper have shown how Naples was the protagonist of a Renaissance culture of European significance, due to the manufacture of the fabrics and the typology of the decorations produced. Among the certainly interesting paintings are a San Francesco in ecstasy that the most up-to-date critics believe to be the work of the painter Francesco Solimena's workshop and a painted lunette depicting an Annunciation, recently attributed to the Marche artist Francesco da Tolentino.

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via S. Francesco
83043 Montella

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