Ala Ponzone Civic Museum

The first section is dedicated to the Middle Ages and the 15th century, with sculptures, torn frescoes, ceiling panels and a wide selection of the production related to the works of the Bembo.
Painting in Cremona in the 16th century is followed by a complete anthology of painters documenting the transition from 15th-century tradition to the modern manner and the affirmation of the new Renaissance sensibility through the works of Camillo Boccaccino, Gian Francesco Bembo and Campi, forerunners of the naturalistic sensibility that would lead to Caravaggio, illustrated here by the famous St. Francis in Meditation. The Sala di San Domenico houses a series of works from the demolished church of the Preaching Friars and shows the Milanese contributions to local culture in the 17th century (Cerano, Nuvolone, Procaccini).
The following rooms are dedicated to Cremonese still life, portraits of the Ponzone family and evidence of painting from the 17th (Genovesino), 18th and 19th centuries with the affirmation of Neoclassicism (Diotti) and Romanticism (Piccio).
The last rooms host a selection of applied arts (Oriental porcelain, Lombard and European ceramics and majolica, ivories, enamels); the section dedicated to the iconography of Cremona, with works related to the history of the city and its pictorial representation; an overview of Lombard and Cremonese painting from the second half of the 19th century and the 20th century.