Luogo - Museum
Museo "Studio di vetrate artistiche Moretti Caselli"
Where
Via Fatebenefratelli, 2, Perugia
“Moretti-Caselli Artistic Stained Glass Studio” Museum
The Studio di Vetrate Artistiche Moretti Caselli is in the historical center of Perugia, at the foot of the Rocca Paolina fortress, in Via Fatebenefratelli. The house that hosts the Museum was built at the end of the 1400s and was property of the Baglioni family. In 1541, in order to build the Rocca Paolina, the houses of the Baglioni were all destroyed except for this one that, after having been first transformed into a College and then acquired by the Libera Università di Perugia, was successively—in 1894—handed over to Francesco Moretti, the founder of the Studio.
The visit to the Museum-Laboratory allows the visitor to enter into contact with one of the oldest families of glass painter masters of Italy and to discover the secrets of painting on glass. The Laboratory, where the stained glass windows of the most important churches of Umbria—from the Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica, to San Lorenzo Cathedral to the Santa Maria Assunta Duomo of Orvieto—were executed, also conserves, together with the original furniture and fittings, sketches, prototypes and plaster casts for the realization of the stained glass windows. There is a library and a historical archive containing the designs of the work executed.
Also remarkable is the collection of photographic plates, photographic instruments and old pictures.