The Museum
The church's small museum houses many important works of art and a wide collection of precious reliquaries, chalices and monstrances.
A small selection :
- The reliquary of Saint Louis IX, king of France, is of special interest as a most elaborate example in Gothic style of an unknown French goldsmith at the end of the 13th century. It was a gift to this church by king Philip IV of France, following the canonization of Louis IX in 1297.
- The remains of a terracotta Pietà (1495) by the architect, painter and sculptor Baccio da Montelupo (mentioned by Vasari in his Vite)
- A polychromed terracotta Bust of Saint Dominic by Niccolò dell'Arca (1474)
- The remains of a fresco of Madonna with Child and Saint Dominic by an unknown Bolognese artist (possibly Cristoforo da Bologna) (second half of 14th century)
- Madonna of the Velvet, tempera on wood by Lippo Dalmasio (ca. 1390)
- The Paschal Lamb, an oil painting on wood sometimes ascribed to Giorgio Vasari
- Madonna with Child, Saint Dominic and Vincenzo Ferreri (ca. 1773), one of the best works of by Ubaldo Gandolfi(1728–1781)
- Several valuable intarsias by fra Damiano da Bergamo, such as The Story of San Girolomo, and geometrical fugures.
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