The Cathedral Museum, Ferrara is a well renowned basilica in Ferrara, northern Italy. The Cathedral Museum, Ferrara is also the largest religious edifice in the city. The Cathedral Museum, Ferrara being located in the city centre and is not far from the Palazzo Comunale and the famous Castello Estense. This basilica is also connected to the Archbishop's Palace by a covered passage.
The Cathedral Museum, Ferrara was erected in 12th Century, when the city was extending towards the left bank of the Po River. The former Cathedral of Cathedral Museum also dedicated to St. George, still exists on the right bank of the river. The new edifice was sanctified in the year 1135.
The Cathedral Museum of Ferrara is housed in the former church of San Romano on the same square. It houses two works by Cosmè Tura which are Annunciation and St. George and the Dragon, the Madonna della melagrana by Jacopo della Quercia and eight tapestries with stories of the two patron saints of Ferrara based on cartoons by Garofalo and Camillo Filippi.
The art and architecture of Cathedral Museum, Ferrara:
The original Romanesque design of the Cathedral Museum, Ferrara is evident in the façade, resembling those of Modena and Parma. It is in white marble, with three cusps and a series of loggias, small arcades and rose windows, statues and numerous bas-reliefs. On the right side of the Cathedral Museum is a statue of Alberto d'Este, while on the left side is a bronze bust of Pope Clement VIII, over an inscription remembering the capture of the city by that pope.
In the centre of the façade is the porch, supported by two columns with hippogriffs at the bases. It depicts the Universal Judgment created by an unknown master, a loggia with a Madonna with Child which is a late Gothic addition and, just over the portal are the two sculptures by Nicholaus, a pupil of Wiligelmus, representing St. George, patron of Ferrara, and the Last Supper. Nicholaus also designed the façade, the apses, the sides and the interior of the church.
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