Prato - Municipal Gallery

(Local Name: Museo Civico) The Museo Civico (Municipal Gallery), founded in 1850, which is housed in the Palazzo Pretorio, has an interesting collection, particularly of the 14th and 15th century Florentine schools. Items of special interest on the first and second floors are the Tabernacle of St Margaret, by Filippo Lippi (1458; restored from fragments after destruction in an air raid in 1944); the Bacchus Fountain, by Ferdinando Tacca (1665); scenes from the legend of the Virgin's Girdle, attributed to Bernardo Daddi (14th century); a polyptych by Bernardo Daddi, "Virgin and Child with Saints" (c. 1328); a polyptych by Giovanni da Milano, "Madonna Enthroned with Saints" (c. 1354); Filippo Lippi's "Madonna del