Musee du Petit Palais

The Musee du Petit Palais is a historical center and craftsmanship display in Avignon, southern France. It opened in 1976 and has an excellent gathering of Renaissance artistic creations of the Avignon school and in addition from Italy, which reunites many "natives" from the accumulation of Giampietro Campana. It is housed in a fourteenth century working at the north side of the square neglected by the Palais des Papes. Named Petit Palais to recognize it from the Palais des Papes, the first structure was worked amid the time of the Avignon Papacy via Cardinal Berenger Fredoli the Elder in around 1318– 20.

The resulting building work made an inside near that of the present design with four wings around a group and an administration court. The building experienced during its utilization 1396 as a sustained fortress amid the Western Schism, and was a disaster area when the war finished in 1411. In the second 50% of the fifteenth century, Bishop Alain de Coetivy and his successor, Giuliano della Rovere did rebuilding work, giving the Palace pretty much its present appearance by 1503.

The gathering highlights Romanesque etched capitals from the holy places of Avignon remarkably from the shelter of the Cathedrale Notre-Dame des Doms, bits of funerary landmarks of the ecclesiastical period like those of John XXII, Innocent VI, Urban V or the cardinals Philippe de Cabassole and Jean de La Grange, and also models of the school of Avignon with Antoine Le Moiturier or Jean de la Huerta.