Constituted to first of the 1800's, in order to save the many works of art of the ecclesiastical agencies soppressi from the French, has center in the former Jesuit novitiate of Sant'Ignazio in the university quarter of the city of Bologna.
The museum, today completely renewed (1997) in its structures second the most modern criteria conserved and museografici, offers to the visitors a fascinating to you covered through the emiliana painting from the XIII XVIII to the century.
Beside the capolavori of Vital from Bologna, Ercole de Roberti, Francisco France and Parmigianino, we find the polittico of Giotto, the most famous Saint Cecilia di Raffaello, and still works of the Perugino and the Veneziani Tiziano and Tintoretto.
The section of the Baroque numbers nearly all then the protagonists of the 1600's Italian from Augustin, Ludovico and Annibale Carracci, to the Guercino and Domenichino, until wonderful burlaps of “divine” Guido Reni.

.L' "Estasi di S. Cecilia"
realizzata fra il 1515 e 1518
da RAFFAELLO per la Chiesa
di S. Giovanni in Monte

Il polittico di GIOTTO
(firmato "Opus Magistri locti de Florentia")

Conversione di San Paolo
Realizzata da Ludovico Carracci
per la cappella di famiglia Emilio Zambeccari
in San Francesco dall''agosto del 1587

Madonna con il Bambino e i santi
Domenico, Francesco, Marta
e Maddalena
(detta Madonna Bargellini)
Draft of before the work signed and dated from Ludovico Carracci and had commissioned from the Bargellini family for one nail head of the church of monache Convertite in via Blades .

Pietà e i santi Petronio, Domenico, Carlo Borromeo ,Francesco d'Assisi e Procolo
(detta Pietà dei mendicanti)
Ordered to the Guido Reni artist from the Senate of Bologna, was placed on the greater altar
of the church of Santa Maria della Pietà of the 13 November 1616

Strage degli innocenti
Painting of Guido Reni famous in artistic literature was executed for Conti Berò, owners of one nail head in the church of Saint Domenico .

Madonna del passero
Draft of one of the more famous works of the Guercino in its juvenile, datable
phase for the compactness of the figures and the strong realism around to 1615-1616

San Sebastiano curato da Irene
Executed from Giovanni Francesco Barbieri said the Guercino in the 1619 for the cardinal Jacopo Serra, legacy of Ferrara .

Madonna col Bambino in gloria e i santi Michele Arcangelo,
Caterina d'Alessandria, Apollinare e Giovanni Evangelista

Executed from Pietro Vannucci said the Perugino after 1497, perhaps already to expiring of the century for the Scarani nail head in Saint Giovanni in Monte.