Description
In this room, masterpieces of Late Gothic painting in Abruzzo are displayed, bearing witness to the vibrant artistic season that animated the region in the first half of the 15th century. At the beginning of the 1400s, local workshops and painters stood out for their exceptional technical skill, expressed through extraordinary decorative richness, using brilliant colours, ultramarine blue, and gilded surfaces incised and punched.
The artworks on display, originally created to adorn altars or for private devotion, reveal a desire to celebrate the divine and educate the faithful in sacred stories, often combining multiple episodes. This devotion gave rise to precious images, conceived to move the viewer and guide prayer, blending material refinement with spiritual intensity.
The polyptych by the painter Lorenzo da Venezia attests to the arrival of Venetian art in Abruzzo, a crossroad of exchange along the Adriatic coast. The sculptural group of the Annunciation by the German artist Walter Monich confirms how foreign masters brought new formal sensibilities into dialogue with the local visual culture.
