Inaugurated in 1975, the Museum of Anagni Cathedral (FR) is located in several rooms next to the Cathedral of Santa Maria Annunziata and its cloister. The museum has two main exhibition sections displaying archaeological artefacts, artworks and liturgical objects. The museum route begins in the library and the sala del Capitolo, continues through the new sacristy which displays more recent artworks and reliquaries, and into the ancient treasure rooms with a medieval collection of cloth donated by Pope Boniface VIII and the Chapel of the Saviour, also of medieval origins.
The underground area of the cathedral holds the Oratory of St. Thomas Becket and the Crypt of St. Magnus which is decorated with one of the most important pictorial cycles from the western Middle Ages. The last room of special importance on the route is the lapidario in the porticoes of the ancient cloister, decorated with marbles, stones and Roman inscriptions, pluteus, mosaic slabs, little columns from ancient ambons, markers, fragments of tomb stones and funeral markers.
The cathedral has an Emilian-Lombard Romanesque style that is notable both outside, with its façade in tartare stoneand imposing bell tower, and inside, where pillars and columns alternate amidst the naves and meet typically Gothic architectural elements, such as pointed arches, the result of later restoration work.
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