Museo del Duomo

In its new location, the Duomo Museum is worth a visit just to see works by Ferrara's most outstanding 15th-century painter, Cosmé Tura. Aesthetically controversial, the big attraction is Tura's St. George slaying the dragon to save a red-stockinged damsel in distress. Opposite is an outstanding Jacopo della Quercia work of a sweet, regal Madonna with a pomegranate in one hand and the Christ child in the other. Also from the Renaissance heyday of Ferrara are some bas-reliefs, notably a Giano bifronte (a mythological figure looking at the past and the future), along with some 16th-century arazzi (tapestries) woven by hand.

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