Museo di Melezet
Museo di Melezet
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Sacred art
Frazione di Melezet, Cappella del Carmine, 10052 Bardonecchia
The idea of setting up a museum to preserve the most important art objects from the parishes in the fractions of Bardonecchia was conceived by Don Francesco Masset (1920-1987), parish priest of Melezet and Les Arnauds, who began to gather the best art objects from the main sacred places in the area at the parish house. The collection created by Don Masset soon became a destination for connoisseurs and enthusiasts of art history and local culture.
It remained in the same location until 1999, when the works of the future Museum of Alpine Religious Art were moved to the Chapel of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, restored by the will of Don Edoardo Grua. In the spring of 2000, a small group of volunteers opened the Museum, and by the end of the same year, contacts were made to ensure that this parochial art collection was included in the Diocesan Museum System.
The Museum houses works of goldsmithing, wooden statuary, paintings, and vestments, mainly from the parishes of Melezet, Les Arnauds, Rochemolles, and the chapels of San Sisto, San Sebastiano, San Rocco, the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame du Coignet, and the Carmine. The artistic testimonies range from the 15th to the 20th century, and many of them were exhibited at the prestigious exhibition "Valle di Susa. Arte e Storia dall'XI al XVIII secolo," held in Susa in 1972 and at the GAM in Turin in 1977.
Among the exhibited works are the painted panels from the chapel of Coignet, created by the Master of Coignet around 1490-1500; the processional cross from 1520-29, made by the Briançon goldsmith Yppolite Borrel; the splendid wooden Madonna by the Master of the Mass of Saint Gregory, dated to the first decade of the 1500s; the wooden altarpiece depicting Saint Sixtus and the Madonna with Child, created by the Master of the Madonna of Savoulx around 1470/75; a series of arm reliquaries dating to the 17th century, and some embossed and painted leather altar frontals.
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