Abbazia di San Pietro

Art Collection of the

Fondazione per l’ Istruzione Agraria  

The art collection that the Fondazione per l’ Istruzione Agraria inherited when it took over the Abbazia di San Pietro is displayed in rooms around the first floor of the main cloister, with its entrance on the left as you enter from Borgo XX Giugno.

SS Benedict and Rufinus (1492)

St Benedict	St Rufinus

These two small panels at the beginning of the west wall (i.e. turn right and then left from the entrance) have recently been related to payments made by the monks of San Pietro in 1491-2 to Ludovico d’ Angelo.  Each is now in a gold-figured frame that probably dates to the 17th century.

St Rufinus, who is depicted here as a young man in armour, is the saint whose relics are preserved in the crypt of the Benedictine Abbazia di San Rufino e Vitale at Amandola, Marche.  Before the link with the documents mentioned above was made, this saint was often thought to be either St Michael or St George.

Return to the walk around the exterior of the Abbazia di San Pietro.