Restoration of the main door of Palazzo Diomede Carafa completed in Naples

The conservation restoration of the wooden front door of Palazzo Diomede Carafa has been completed in Naples. Located on Via San Biagio dei Librai in the heart of the city’s historic center, the palace is named after its creator, Diomede Carafa first Count of Maddaloni, a nationally prominent entrepreneur and intellectual who established friendly relations with Lorenzo the Magnificent and Alfonso of Aragon. The palace was renovated in 1466 for the purpose of housing artifacts from the various phases of Neapolitan antiquities by amalgamating and renovating pre-existing buildings.

The restoration presented on Sept. 18 is sponsored by the Campania Section of the Association of Italian Historic Houses(ADSI), in the presence of Luciano Garella, Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the City of Naples, Marisol Valenzuela, Director of the Polychrome Wooden Sculpture Restoration Laboratory of theSuperior Institute for Conservation and Restoration, and Carlo Ruosi, Rotary Project Coordinator Restoration Palazzo Carafa. DAFNE Restauri Snc, on the other hand, took care of the six-month-long work on the wooden part (which began in February and ended in July), the last two of which included restoration work on the related marble portal.

Thanks to the restorations, one can now once again appreciate the richness of the decorations of the twelve panels of which the portal is composed, but that’s not all: portions of the original colors have also been recovered.

“We are happy to have been able to support this important restoration work, which has returned to the city of Naples a rare masterpiece of fifteenth-century wooden sculpture,” said Gaddo della Gherardesca, president of the Associazione Dimore Storiche Italiane “It is our mission, as an association, to promote in every possible way the knowledge, protection and maintenance of thousands of privately owned cultural assets, often still little known, which represent a significant part of the historical-artistic and architectural heritage of our country.”

Photo shows a detail of the portal (the lintel). Ph. Credit Miguel Hermoso Cuesta

Restoration of the main door of Palazzo Diomede Carafa completed in Naples

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