Galleria Nazionale delle Marche

Italy's finest small-museum collection of 15th-century painting, in the Palazzo Ducale.

The gallery occupies the bel piano of the Palazzo Ducale and was assembled in the 19th century from suppressed churches and convents across the Marche. Its prize possessions are three works by Piero della Francesca: the haunting Flagellation of Christ, the Madonna of Senigallia, and the diptych ideal city panel known as the Ideal View of a City.

Beyond Piero, the collection includes Raphael's young portrait of La Muta, Paolo Uccello's Profanation of the Host predella, and works by Titian, Pedro Berruguete, and Justus of Ghent. The Studiolo of Federico is part of the same ticket. The ticket office and entrance are inside the palace courtyard.

things to do museum
A story
Piero della Francesca's *Flagellation of Christ* is one of the most enigmatic paintings in Western art. Three figures stand calmly in the foreground while Christ is scourged in the distance — and 500 years of scholarship has failed to agree on who they are or what the picture means. Kenneth Clark called it 'the greatest small painting in the world.'