Volterra City Museum and Art Gallery

The origins of the Volterra Art Gallery date back to 1842 when Luigi Fedra Inghirami, who worked in the cathedral, began to collect works of art from various disused churches and monasteries of the city. He gathered the work in the chapel of San Carlo which adjoins the cathedral. In 1905, following a proposal by Corrado Ricci, a municipal art gallery was arranged on the s...