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Certosa di Pavia

The Certosa di Pavia is a monastery, located about 8 km north of Pavia, dating from the fourteenth century. Represents one of the most important monuments of late Gothic Italian. The original location of the monastery was on the edge of the park north of the Visconti Castle of Pavia in the park are now left only parts of it (the Vernavola Park, north of Pavia) is no longer connected to the castle and the Certosa.


Open to the public for the first time in 1911 and then remained closed for nearly half a century, the Certosa di Pavia Museum collects works from the monastery or its closely linked. The museum consists of two basic sections. The ground floor houses the gallery of plaster casts in which they are exposed about 200 plaster casts taken from the front pads, from the cloisters and other parts of the monastery, as well as from the tomb of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, founder of the Charterhouse in 1396. Upstairs are instead vestments, paintings and original sculptures which reasons linked to the secular evolution of the complex, and preservation have progressively deprived of office and original function. Among these we must mention the great altarpiece by Bartolomeo Montagna and paintings on wood, fragments of altarpieces, and Ambrose Bergognone Bernardino Luini, reliefs and marble with traces of gilding and polychromy by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Cristoforo Mantegazza and Agostino Busti said Bambaja. In the same floor are exposed seventeenth and eighteenth century portraits of the Visconti and Sforza, patrons of the monastery, detached wall paintings attributed to Bernard of Pavia de 'Rossi and at the same Bergognone, paintings by Bernardino Campi and Antonio, and a series of holy Carthusians.



The Museum is housed in the ancient halls of the so-called Palazzo Ducale della Certosa (XV - XVI century), former home of the Dukes and guest quarters for visitors of rank. His visit thus enables you to admire the splendor of some environments such as the oratory and the wall of the gallery of plaster casts, paintings by the brothers Fiammenghini, and valuable to the studio floor, painted with grotesque decorations of the second sixteenth century, in which biblical scenes and Roman history are part of a refined setting illusionary perspective.

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