A testimony to the political, civil and religious evolution of the city
The collection, created at the end of the 19th century with the aim of preserving the city's artistic heritage, includes paintings dating from the 13th to the 16th century, mostly from public buildings, street shrines, city gates, confraternity headquarters and city hospitals.
Among the decorated rooms of the palace, you can admire the frescoes of the Studiolo adjacent to the small balcony that recall the style of the Umbrian neoclassical painter Antonio Castelletti, born in Paciano on Lake Trasimeno, who worked in 1820 on some restorations in Santa Maria degli Angeli.
Inside the Pinacoteca are collected some objects of everyday use that tell the story of life in Assisi in ancient times: vases, glass and metals, dating between Protohistory and the full Roman age. Exceptional are the fragments of frescoes from under Casa Rocchi, a domus excavated in 1864 by the Archaeological Society of Subasio and today known only from drawings and these few fragments of painted plaster. The Art Gallery also houses a small group of Egyptian finds donated to the Community by the Cortona religious Guido Corbarelli, who from 1888 held the office of Archbishop of Pelusio and Apostolic Delegate for Arabia and Egypt.
