Giuditta Brozzetti: “Heavenly” Textiles in Perugia

Giuditta Brozzetti: “Heavenly” Textiles in Perugia

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In the backstreets of Perugia, a medieval church houses artisanal wonders. Very eager to visit the Perugia laboratorio/museo of the Brozzetti textiles, never had I imagined that the textile looms would line a church nave! Marta, great-grandaughter of founder, Giuditta Brozzetti, told me that her father had purchased a de-consecrated church in the 1950’s. Called “San Francesco…

Perugia’s Stained Glass Splendor

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In Perugia, artistic treasures are innumerable. You’ll certainly want to include in your explorations, the splendid Renaissance masterpieces of Perugino in the frescoed Collegio del Cambio (Money-changers Guild),…. ……the medieval cathedral, backdropping the 13th-century Great Fountain,…. …. and the 16th-century papal fortress, la Rocca Paolina. These monuments are all linked to a perugino stained-glass master, Francesco Moretti (1833- 1917) and…