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The Gonzaga Museum is located inside the Rocca di Novellara and preserves historical-artistic memories, linked above all to the presence of the Gonzaga family. The exhibition itinerary winds through the rooms of the sixteenth-century noble apartment on the first floor of the north wing of the Rocca dei Gonzaga, where several rooms retain decorated coffered ceilings, wall friezes, Veronese marble fireplaces. In the first room are exposed the Romanesque - Byzantine frescoes of 1280, owned by the Episcopal Curia, which decorated the apse of the ancient Church of San Giovanni della Fossa and the Roman coins of the Angiolino Sessi donation. In the following rooms you can admire the frescoes painted by Lelio Orsi in 1558 for the Casino di Sopra, a Gonzaga residence in the Novellara area. Worth mentioning for its particular importance is the Florentine tapestry commissioned by Alfonso I Gonzaga in 1554 and purchased at an auction by the Municipality of Novellara in 2003. The collection of pharmacy vases from the Jesuit Convent of Novellara is of great importance. of the richest and most precious collections in existence.

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