Museo Diocesano
Occupying the episcopal palace just around the corner from the cathedral, this is its Treasury museum, and after all that abstract art it’s worth a look. Its best-known pieces are a couple of paintings by El Greco’s workshop commissioned for local churches in the 16th century, but there are plenty of other interesting exhibits, including tapestries by Flemish master weavers, a 14th century Byzantine diptych, and a rare, authorized copy of the Turin Shroud dating from 1642. The museum was laid out in the 1980s by Cuenca’s resident abstract artist Gustavo Torner, who also helped organize the Museo de Arte Abstracto, but the atmosphere here is strictly old and sacred.
Occupying the episcopal palace just around the corner from the cathedral, this is its Treasury museum, and after all that abstract art it’s worth a look. Its best-known pieces are a couple of paintings by El Greco’s workshop commissioned for local churches in the 16th century, but there are plenty of other interesting exhibits, including tapestries by Flemish master weavers, a 14th century Byzantine diptych, and a rare, authorized copy of the Turin Shroud dating from 1642. The museum was laid out in the 1980s by Cuenca’s resident abstract artist Gustavo Torner, who also helped organize the Museo de Arte Abstracto, but the atmosphere here is strictly old and sacred.
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