An itinerary to discover the figure of St. Martin of Tours, a leading figure of western Christianity, illustrated through some of the best known masterpieces of European jewellery, sculpture, painting and manuscript between the fifth and tenth centuries.
Over seventy artworks from the museums, galleries, church and monasteries of twelve European countries tell of St. Martin of Tours and his civilisation through paintings on wood, sculptures, canvasses, engravings, works by goldsmiths, manuscripts from the fifth to the tenth centuries: masterpieces by Dürer, Solimena, van Oost, Bassano, Farinati, Grassi, and many others from the most important European collections (the Vatican museums, the Louvre, the Rjiksmuseum in Amsterdam, the National Museum in Barcelona, the National Museum in Munich, the Ljubljana National Gallery, St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, the Hungarian Museum in Budapest) and many other exhibition centres tell of the birth of western Christian civilisation and outline the countenance and deeds of one of its great fathers.
Among the exceptional exhibits are reliquaries from the fifth and sixth centuries, a fifteenth century silver statue of the saint from Carcassonne (the most precious in France), four richly decorated manuscripts from the high middle ages, frescos from Romanesque churches of Catalonia, Florentine triptychs from the early renaissance and superb Flemish paintings from the baroque era
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