Guided theme tours

In order to renew and broaden the appeal of the works on exhibit in the MODO museums and to help the visitor make the most of the art in the city of Orvieto, the Opera del Duomo offers guided theme tours of the historical center and the many buildings of historical-artistic interest.

For information and contacts

Ticket office and educational services
Palazzo Soliano
Piazza Duomo
05018 Orvieto
Tel. +39 0763 343592
info@museomodo.it

Arnolfo di Cambio and the art of his time in Orvieto

Tour of the Papal Palaces

• The censing angels
• The group of the Maestà and sculpture of the twelfth/fourteenth century
• The thirteenth-century paintings

The Cathedral

• Arnolfo and the first project for the cathedral
• The bas-reliefs and the geometric mosaics of the facade
• The pavement of the Sancta Santorum
• The Baptismal Font
• The Madonna of San Brizio

In the Church of San Domenico

• The tomb of Cardinal De Braye

Medieval Art in Orvieto: architecture, painting, sculpture and gold- and silversmith's work in Orvieto in the thirteenth and fourteenth century

The Cathedral

• The figured texts of the facade
• The fourteenth-century pictorial cycles
• The wooden choir stalls
• The Reliquary of the Corporal
• The lower Chapel (called "Crypt")

The Papal Palaces

• The complex of the Papal Palaces
• Group of the Maestà and sculpture room I
• Illuminated antiphonary
• Detached frescoes, mosaic fragments from the facade, paintings, intarsias

In the Churches of San Francesco (sacristy), San Lorenzo de' Arari, Sant'Andrea, Sant'Agostino and San Giovenale;

Medieval quarter, former church of San Giovanni dei Cavalieri (Via Logge dei Mercanti), Palazzo of the Capitano del Popolo, Albornoz fortress

The Renaissance in Orvieto: Gentile da Fabriano, Fra Angelico, Pinturicchio, Pastura, Luca Signorelli and Michele Sanmicheli

The Cathedral

• Progress in the construction of the facade with the capomastro or master builder Antonio Federighi da Siena
• Federighi: holy water font
• Gentile's Maestà
• Frescoes in the tribune: Pinturicchio and Pastura
• Cappella Nova
• The altar of the Magi

Papal Palaces

• Saints in the style of Pinturicchio
• Signorelli's Magdalene
• The Vanzi vestments
• Palazzo Petrucci on the Corso

Church of San Domenico

• The Petrucci Chapel
• Church of San Rocco
• Palazzo Simoncelli (Via Malabranca)
• Church of San Giovanni (Cloister)

The sixteenth century: from the Renaissance to the Counter Reformation

• Saint Patrick's Well
• Palazzo Crispo
• Palazzo Buzi

The Cathedral

• Ippolito Scalza: completion of the facade and the piazza
• Site of the wooden choir stalls changed and the new Farnesian floor
• Ippolito Scalza: the project for the marble altars in the transept, the statues and the altars of the side aisles and the counterfacade, the great organ

Papal Palaces

• The paintings for the lost monumental tabernacle of the Cathedral
• Ippolito Scalza's tabernacle for the Church of San Lorenzo in Vineis
• The painting cycle: Girolamo Muziano, Nicolò Circignani and the Orvieto painter Cesare Nebbia

The paintings in the Church of San Bernardo in Piazza del Popolo

Ippolito Scalza's Orvieto

• Palazzo Clementini (exterior, internal nymphaeum, fireplace in what is now the Municipal Library)
• Palazzo del Comune (City Hall)

Cesare Nebbia's Orvieto

• The decorative cycle in Palazzo Monaldeschi
• The altarpiece of San Domenico
• The altarpiece of Sant'Andrea

Sant'Agostino

• The statues of the Apostles and the Patron Saints

Orvieto from the Baroque to Neoclassicism

The Cathedral

• Giuseppe Valadier's facade, Giuseppe Pacetti and the mosaic workers of the Scuola Vaticana (Vatican workshops)
• The altars in the Chapel of the Corporal, the Cappella Nova and Gualterio Valadier's lamps
• The Church of San Giacomo
• The Church of San Francesco
• The Church of Santa Maria dei Servi
• The Church of San Giuseppe

Visit to the exhibit in Sant'Agostino

Orvieto in the nineteenth and twentieth century

The Cathedral

• The Purist (Neo-Gothic and Neo-Renaissance) "restorations"
• The new doors
• Emilio Greco Museum

The Palazzo of the Opera del Duomo

• Vespignani's facade
• The Archives and the Urbani room

Palazzo Netti
Palazzo Gualterio
Palazzo dei Sette
Palazzo del Comune (City Hall)
Visit to the Mancinelli Theater