Museo di Capodimonte

The Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples (official Italian: Museo Nazionali di Capodimonte ) houses exhibits of Italian and Neapolitan cultural heritage as well as an extensive picture gallery. Also worth seeing is the palace itself, in which the museum is housed. It was originally located just outside the city summer residence of the Bourbons in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and overlooks the city.

The palace was commissioned by Charles VII, King of Naples and Sicily, later Charles III. ( Spain) from 1738 to the designs of Giovanni Antonio Medrano, who had also built as the Teatro San Carlo, built. King Charles wanted the construction including for the famous art collection of the Farnese, which he had inherited from his mother Elisabetta Farnese to provide a dignified setting.

The collection also make oil painting from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, including important works by Masaccio, Sandro Botticelli, Simone Martini, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, El Greco, Luca Giordano.

In 2010 here and in five other museums of Naples was the comprehensive exhibition Ritorno al Barocco. Da Caravaggio a Vanvitelli instead.

Important works in the museum

Masaccio: Crucifixion

Sandro Botticelli: Mary and two angels

Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Blind Leading the Blind

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