Campania - Finestre sull'Arte

Caserta, reopens the Mitreo of Santa Maria Capua Vetere.

The preparatory activities for the restoration of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere (Caserta), aimed at carrying out appropriate restoration work on the monument, conducted by theCentral Institute for Restoration in Rome (ICR) and theUniversi...
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Capri, Via Krupp reopens after 9 years. And the Capri Museums will also be born

Thanks to a major maintenance operation on the rock-carved path that winds for more than a kilometer from the Gardens of Augustus to Marina Piccola, among pine trees and Mediterranean scrub, Via Krupp on Capri was reopened to the public after nine ye...
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Restoration of the Roman villa in Minori on the Amalfi coast gets underway

The restoration of Minori's Roman Villa, long awaited by both the local and scientific communities, is underway. This was announced by the Campania Regional Museums Directorate. A few months ago, the archaeological site on the Amalfi coast, which pr...
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The Bourbon Palace of Carditello will be a museum

The Bourbon Palace of Carditello, located in San Tammaro in Caserta, Italy, will be a museum. This was announced in an interview with Ansa by Giuseppe Russo, director general of the Royal Site of Carditello Foundation since last June 15. Afterdecades...
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The Farnese Cup, the splendid ancient cameo from the National Archaeological Museum in Naples

"Una schodella di sardonio et chalcidonio et agatha, entrovi più figure et di fuori una testa di Medusa": this is how the Tazza Farnese, a masterpiece of Hellenistic glyptics, was listed in the inventory of Lorenzo the Magnificent 's possessions...
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Battistello Caracciolo, the bronze patriarch of the Caravaggeschi. The exhibition in Naples

A new exhibition on Battistello Caracciolo, articulated between the Capodimonte Museum, the Royal Palace, and the Certosa di San Martino, has opened in Naples: more than an exhibition, it is a true immersion in the Neapolitan seventeenth cent...
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A work by Giuseppe Sammartino, the author of the Veiled Christ, discovered at the Palace of Caserta

Important discovery at the Royal Palace of Caserta, during work on the reorganization of some service spaces, not open to the public and intended for storage. Precisely from these storerooms and their rearrangement, wanted by the Museums Directorate ...
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Lamont Young, the visionary and brilliant architect who envisioned modern Naples

On March 12, 1851, exactly 170 years ago, Lamont Young, a British architect who lived in Naples between the two centuries, was born. Growing up on the family property of the present Villa Lucia in Naples, former coffee house of Ferdinand of Bourbon...
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