Ferrara, Palazzo Schifanoia and Cathedral Museum put their collections online on Google

Important online milestone for Ferrara’s Museums of Ancient Art and Cathedral Museum: the two institutions, which bring together much of the city’s cultural heritage (the Musei d’Arte Antica gather Palazzo Schifanoia, one of Italy’s most important Renaissance buildings, the Palazzina di Marfisa d’Este and the Lapidario Civico) have put their collections online thanks to a collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, the Mountain View company’s platform reserved for art that already collects images and descriptions of thousands of works from museums around the world, from the Uffizi to the Metropolitan in New York, from the National Gallery in London to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

As of July 18, the public can go to Google Arts & Culture to take virtual tours of the Ferrara museums mentioned above, or to discover their works through a collection of 730 high-resolution images of the works contained in the institutions. There are several options: it is possible to see in individual details the world-famous Salone dei Mesi in Palazzo Schifanoia with significant frescoes by Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de’ Roberti and colleagues, or even the online display of the Bible of the Carthusian monks of San Cristoforo di Ferrara, commissioned by Borso d’Este, or the one dedicated to the Chorales of Ferrara Cathedral. And, as anticipated, the museums can also be visited virtually thanks to the 360-degree photographs taken with Google Street View technology, so you can enter their halls while sitting in front of your computer, perhaps to get a glimpse of the museum before a real visit.

As for the Cathedral Museum, the institution’s entire holdings have been placed on Google Arts & Culture: more than a hundred works digitized through more than 400 images. These include Jacopo della Quercia’s famous Madonna of the Pomegranate, the organ doors by Cosmè Tura, one of the great names of theFerrara workshop (to use Roberto Longhi’s expression), the aforementioned Cathedral Chorales, Johannes Karcher’s tapestries, and much more.

These are all the more precious tools, both for the public and for scholars, if we consider, for example, that Palazzo Schifanoia has been closed since 2012 for a long but necessary restoration: the possibility of admiring the works even only through a screen is therefore a great opportunity. The work was also possible thanks to the civil service art historians who collaborated on the project: Tatiana De Bartolo, Maria Chiara Mosele and Romeo Pio Cristofori. To see the holdings of the Museums of Ancient Art on Google, one needs to go to this link, while the works of the Cathedral Museum are available on this one.

Pictured: Ferrara, Palazzo Schifanoia, Salone dei Mesi.

Ferrara, Palazzo Schifanoia and Cathedral Museum put their collections online on Google

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