Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
Madonna and two angels, Sandro Botticelli
Christ Served by Angels, Giovanni Lanfranco
Egeria weeps Numa, Claude Lorrain
Massacre of the Innocents, Matteo di Giovanni
Charles III at St Peter's, Giovanni Paolo Pannini
Madonna, Pietro Perugino
Atalanta and Hippomenes, Guido Reni
St. Sebastian, José de Ribera
St. Jerome, José de Ribera
St. Bruno , the Carthusian, José de Ribera
St. Jerome and the Angel, José de Ribera
The Drunken Silenus, José de Ribera
Virgin and Child, Massimo Stanzione
Danae, Titian
Portrait of Paul III ., Titian
Portrait of Julia Bonaparte with her daughters, Jean-Baptiste Wicar
Museo
di Capodimonte is a museum located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a
grand Bourbon palazzo in Naples, Italy. The museum is the prime
repository of Neapolitan painting and decorative art, with several
important works from other Italian schools of painting, and some
important ancient Roman sculptures.
History
The
vast collection can trace its origins back to 1738, when King Charles
VII of Naples and Sicily (later Charles III, king of Spain) decided to
build a hunting lodge on the Capodimonte hill, but then decided that he
would instead build a grand palace, partly because his existing
residence, the Palace of Portici, was too small to accommodate his
court, and partly because he needed somewhere to house the fabulous
Farnese art collection which he had inherited from his mother,
Elisabetta Farnese, last descendant of the sovereign ducal family of
Parma.
Over the years the palace was enlarged and filled
with more art. In 1787, on the advice of Jacob Philipp Hackert, a
laboratory for the restoration of paintings was created.
When
the Parthenopaean Republic was declared in 1799, Ferdinand fled to
Palermo on board Nelson's Vanguard, taking the most valuable items from
the museum with him. What remained was looted by the French troops of
General Championnet who were billeted there. During the ten years of
French occupation (1806 to 1815), the art collection was transferred to
the Naples National Archaeological Museum. When King Ferdinand returned
from Sicily in 1815, he employed many painters and sculptors to work on
the redecoration of the palace . It was finally completed in 1840, and
a gallery housing contemporary art was added.
After the palace passed in 1861 to the House of Savoy, further pieces were added to the art collections, appointing Domenico Morelli as consultant for new acquisitions. They also added an extensive collection of historic firearms and other weapons. In 1866, the boudoir of Maria Amalia of Saxony was transferred to Capodimonte from the Palace of Portici, and in 1877 a Roman era marble floor was brought in from a Roman villa on Capri.
After the end of the monarchy, the palace became
purely a national museum in 1950, with many of the exhibits being
returned from the National Museum.
Collection
The first
and second floors house the Galleria Nazionale (National Gallery), with
paintings from the 13th to the 18th centuries including major works by
Simone Martini, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Masaccio, Lorenzo Lotto,
Giovanni Bellini, Giorgio Vasari, El Greco, Jacob Philipp Hackert and
many others. The museum is by far the best place to see paintings of
the Neapolitan School, often under-appreciated by the wider world, with
large holdings of Jusepe de Ribera, Luca Giordano, the Neapolitan
Caravaggisti and many others (see List of works in the Galleria
Nazionale di Capodimonte). Much of the ground floor is taken up by part
of the magnificent Farnese collection of classical, mostly Roman,
monumental sculpture, which survives here and in the Naples National
Archaeological Museum largely intact.
Elsewhere in the
palace the royal apartments are furnished with antique 18th-century
furniture and a collection of porcelain and majolica from the various
royal residences
Bibliography
Nicola Spinosa (1999). Capodimonte (in Italian). Milan: Electa. ISBN 88-435-8613-0.
Le Guide di Dove - Campania, Corriere della sera, 2007.
Il Museo di Capodimonte, valori di Napoli, Pubblicomit, 2002.
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