Museum of Sacred Artwork

This museum of Sacred Artwork, one of the maximum essential in Galicia, occupies a few rooms of the convent of Santa Clara de Monforte de Lemos, based in 1622 by means of Catarina de la Cerda and Sandoval, spouse of Pedro Fernández de Castro, VII Conde de Lemos, who whilst being a widow took the habits inside the monastery. This patronage is specifically vital, because the series hosts part of the essential inventive legacy that both of them donated; astounding pieces of painting, sculpture, ivories, textiles and luxury items-specially reliquaries-amassed by way of the Counts of Lemos in the course of his viceroyalty in Naples among the years 1610 and 1616. The exhibition houses the maximum critical collection of Italian artwork of the first third of the 17th century in Galicia.

It is evolved alongside 5 rooms wherein awesome pieces of portray, sculpture, silverware, ivories, textiles, and many others. Are proven. Acquired by means of the Counts for the duration of their stay in Naples and multiplied by using essential works acquired in Spain. Among the maximum exceptional pieces are the sculptures of the workshop of Gregorio Fernández, an exponent of the Castellana School of the 17th century, as is the case of the reclining Christ in a processional urn, and immaculate ones. The portions of goldsmiths of the Italian Renaissance of the seventeenth century, in addition to the reliquaries of the Italian and Castilian colleges or the embroidery in silks of the portions of the ornament and liturgical garb and clothes of pictures, are also of special relevance.