Civic Museum of Saint Francesco
The museum complex of San Francisco constituted by the Civic Museum of San Francesco and the Ethnographic Museum "The Talking Drum". Housed in the convent and the church of San Francesco, located in the center of Montone, at the end of a flight of steps from Piazza Fortebracci road, town center, arrives at Via San Francesco, in the district of Borgo Vecchio.
The museum opened in 1995, has paintings of great value. In the Gothic church that houses dating back to the fourteenth century, have been relocated, in part, the original furnishings, while the attached convent spaces are designed to accommodate the entire art history collection. Entering the church you will notice the beautiful portal marquetry work of Bencivenni Mercatello, 1514. Interesting, though fragmentary preservation, the apse frescoes Ferrara Antonio Alberti. Commissioned in the third decade of the fifteenth century by the famous leader Arm Fortebracci, Count of Montone, the cycle is the most important evidence of the kind of culture Arm. In addition to the choir stalls, finely inlaid on the left wall is preserved votive altar of the family Fortebracci with a fresco of St. Anthony of Padua between saints of Perugia Bartolomeo Caporali. Increasingly, this artist is the banner of Our Lady of Mercy on display at the museum. Among the exhibits is the most valuable, of course, the wooden group of the Deposition from the Church of San Gregorio and dated XIII century. In addition to paintings by artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a large collection of fabrics and sacred gold completes the collection.