The Museum

The second floor of Palazzi Comunali houses the Picture Gallery and the Town Museum. The visit starts from the Town museum: the first section deals with the memory of the town history. It decsribes Todi events through objects and materials, chronologically disposed starting from its legendary origins up to the Risorgimento.
Especially worthy of notice are the marble plate depicting San Fortunato, Jesus Christ, the Redemptor, San Cassiano, the wooden model of Santa Maria della Consolazione dating back to 1571, work of Ventura Vitoni, and Anita Garibaldi's saddle. Then follow the five sections:
ARCHAEOLOGY, the town with the closest commercial and cultural links with Todi was Volsinii-Orvieto. There is documentary evidence of this in Attic ceramics with red and black images, everyday pottery, objects for personal ornamentation, and a number of architectonic terrecottas, among them the antefixes with women heads are especially noteworthy for their original colours.
Bronze votive statuettes represent one of the most widespread forms of ancient artistic craftmanship.
NUMISMATICS, the Numismatic section consists of 1475 coins of pre-Roman, Greek, Roman, Gothic, Byzantine, Medieval and Modern era. The most important collection is represented by the specimens issued by the mint of Tuder( 130 pieces)
In the third section SACRED CLOTHES and CRAFT OBJECT are exhibited. They come from different ages and areas.
The fourth section is dedicated to CERAMICS and is made up of everyday-use pottery ranging from the 8th to the 18th century. The room housing this section is worth notice. It was decorated in different times from 1600 to 1900. Pier Paolo Sensini enhanced the room with famous people 's portraits and with a fresco representing Todi and its environs. Then Ignazio Mei, a Fabriano painter, represented the legend of the town foundation and the entrance of Emperor Traiano, who was thought to be from Todi.
The PICTURE GALLERY deals with the presence in Todi of the painter Giovanni di Pietro, named Lo Spagna. He was one of the most important followers of the school of the Umbrian painter Il Perugino. Here one can admire the painting the Crowning of the Virgin Mary. Another section deals with the works of Ferra? Faenzone, a northern Italian painter, who had taken part in various decorative projects commissioned in Rome by Pope Sixtus V. Angelo Cesi called him to decorate the episcopal palace. Andrea Polinori's paintings are displayed to cover his life's works.( Todi, 1586-1648)