Parish museum in Casalvecchio Siculo
The Parish Museum in Casalvecchio Siculo is a rich museum which houses paintings, statues, sacred objects and furnishings, ancient books and a section dedicated to peasant art and civilisation.
The museum was commissioned by the parish priest Don Mario D 'Amico with the collaboration of the International Association for Sicilian Monuments.
Among the works and objects kept in the museum of particular historical and artistic interest are: the canvas depicting San Nicolò attributed to Antonello da Messina or to his school; a wooden statue of Saint Anthony; a canvas by an unknown artist depicting the resurrected Jesus with the emblem of the passion dating back to the seventeenth century; a sixteenth-century painting depicting the descent of the Holy Spirit; the statue of Saint Joseph with baby Jesus, a rarity for the subject it represents; ecclesiastical furnishings dated between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; a sixteenth-century book; a white chasuble from the 17th century, finely embroidered and worked in gold and coral; a silver monstrance from 1684; a chalice engraved in silver from the French school of the 17th century; a small bell from the 1300s found in the farmhouse in Piazza Vecchia.
