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Antonian Museum

The Antoniano Museum is located in the historic center of the city of Padua and is attached to the Basilica del Santo. The museum, born at the end of the nineteenth century as a collection of historical-artistic objects related to the life or cult of the Saint, was closed in 1940 and then reopened with the current layout in 1995, on the occasion of the eighth centenary of the Saint's birth. . The Museum collects various works of art created for the basilica and for the Veneranda Arca di Sant'Antonio da Padova. The collection includes sculptures, paintings, plaster casts, vestments, goldsmiths and tapestries. Among the masterpieces present in the museum are: the lunette with the “Monogram of Christ between two saints” by Andrea Mantegna; the wooden inlays of the fifteenth century; the “Navicella” of the sixteenth-century German goldsmith's art and the altarpiece by Tiepolo and Piazzetta. Of great value and rarity is the eighteenth-century liturgical vestment, woven in Lyon. In 2015 the museum was enriched with a permanent exhibition dedicated to "Donatello al Santo", two rooms set up with a rich set of photographs, plaster casts and information panels, which allow the visitor to see closely the masterpieces that the famous artist Florentine created for the Saint, placed in the presbytery and visible only "from a distance". On display there is also a plaster bust of Gattamelata which, thanks to a particular protective treatment, it is possible to touch. The intent is to offer blind people the pleasure of admiring Donatello's masterpieces by touch.

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Piazza del Santo, 11
35123 Padua

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