Coast of Chiaia tel.+39 081 7612356
Eight hundred furniture, porcelains, furnishings, collection of art of the Bench in Naples. In a tent after all to the garden, the museum of the carriages.
Visiting Time: work and festive 8.30 a.m.-07.30 p.m., Closed on Mondays. Entry: £4000.
Historical signs
The museum has center in the beautiful neoclassic building known as Villa Pignatelli. It was built in 1826, in behind position in comparison to the buildings that gone building along the Coast of Chiaia in the first decades of the 800. Since from his origins the characteristics of this princely Villa tie families that have lived her to the taste and the importance of the aristocrats: the Actons, the Rothschildren and the Pignatellis. Sir Ferdinando Acton (1801-1837) it acquired the ground the March 2 1826, from Lord William Drammond, that had purchased in turn him the preceding year from the ancient owners, the Carafas of Belvedere; the charge to plan was entrusted to the architect Neapolitan Pietro Valente. The Villa represents an unicum among the examples of the Neapolitan neoclassic architecture for the grandiloquence of some elements used as the imposing " peristilio ", that makes it similar to the villas represented in the frescos pompeiani and stabiesi.
The eccentricity of certain solutions adopted from Capable (as for instance the situated entry on the back front), resulted of over winds you plan elaborate for the buyer in the body of factory, it aroused severe criticisms in the bigot climate of the Neapolitan architecture of that years. Ferdinand Acton got married in the 1832 Maria Luisa Pelline, only daughter and heir of the Duke of Dalberg. In 1840, after his precocious death, happened in 1837, the young widow him risposò with the second count of Grandville and revenges the Neapolitan house to Carl Mayer von Rothschild. The Villa was modified by an unknown Parisian architect and subsequently from Gaetano Genovese. In 1867 the second-born of Carl Adolf Rothschild revenges the Villa to the Prince Diego Aragon Pignatelli Cortés, which continued the interventions of transformation of the residence and the park.
Thanks to the taste and the intelligence of the princess Rosina, wife of the young prince Diego, nephew and homonym of the Prince Pignatelli, the Villa will become in the first decades of this century place of meeting of ruling and aristocrats of Italy and Europe. You same princess in 1955 gave to the State, the Villa, with the garden, you furnish him, and the harvest of objects of decorative art that today constitute the Museum Diego Aragon Pignatelli Cortés.
Only condition of the donation was that the apartment, in its representative part with his I furnish of furniture and the harvests of objects of decorative art, it was integrally preserved in its characteristic aspects and any object it could be to belong to other collections distracted of it. Of the Museum they also make part the rich book fund, composed from more 2.000 books and over 4.000 disks of lyric and classical music, and the Museum of the carriages entitled to the Marquis Mario of Alexander of Civitanova.
The prominent role of the Museum is constituted by the activity espositiva; the places of the first floor except those that have preserved you furnish him original I am the center of temporary shows of ancient and modern art and in the porch covered to the terrestrial plan they develop equally exposures and concerts of classical music.
The Furnish
The red Living room is furnished with great consolles neobarocche, in carved wood and gilded, surmounted by rich frames that frame monumental specchiere; the carving neorinascimentale of the bookstores, of the table and of the couches characterizes, instead, the environment of the Library; functional cabinets and valuable boiserieses make, finally, the room from lunch an environment of refined person elegance.
Among the furniture must be signalled the neoclassic table in wood, marbles policromi and hard stones; the writing desk with raising with plates of porcelain of Sévres, to report to that typology of secretaire with raising to footlight and plates in porcelain realized in France in the years 1775-80 from Martin Carlin. Among the objects of art they detach three interesting paintings on table with "Histories of the life of the Virgo", datable to 1530 around of Giovan Phillip Criscuolo, and the Narcissus of Vincent Gemito, inspired besides to examples classical.
Together with the Villa, the family Pignatelli wanted to give the ample harvest of objects of decorative art so that it constituted the stable collection of the Museum. The heterogeneity of the exposed objects, show clearly that the interest of the Pignatellis was turned to precise demands of I furnish, rather than to a real collezionismo. The harvest of porcelains constituted by a vast sampling of the most important Italian and European factories of 700 and 800. The nucleus represented more broadly is that of the manufacture of Meissen, with the coffee Service (1735-40), decorated with landscapes and harbors, and with the plastic group raffigurante the "Rape of Proserpina" (1750 ca.), further to a series of groups of allegorical scenes.
Worthy of note they are also the pieces of the manufacture in Vienna, with gallant and mythological scenes as the group with "Perseo that free Andromeda" (1760-65 ca.), countersigned from a fanciful exuberance of the ornamentation and from a certain leziosità of taste. Of extreme refinement the table Service of representation, with silver cutlery and glasses inglesi, recanti the coat of arms Pignatelli, performed around 1830-40 by the manufacture of Bonneval of Limoges and mixture from numerous dishes with to the center decorations of birds.
Among the 700 Italian porcelains they are well represented the objects of production of the Real Fabbrica of Capodimonte (1743-1759), as the " Laundress ", the "Gentleman with marsina" and the attractive one "gallant Scene with little dog". A work of particular preciousness, among the objects of art of the Museum, the " Trembleuse ", in glass lattimo, with decorations to enamels policromi, produced to they Wall up in the first half '700 from the factory of the Miottis.
The Museum Of the Carriages
The Museum takes the name from the marquis Mario of Alexander of
Civitanova, that gave in 1960 a conspicuous collection of nineteenth-century carriages and
sets, systematized in the Museum of Villa Pignatelli. The Marquis of Civitanova, refined
person figure of collector, had picked up during the whole life, in its residence
borbonica to Resin, on the gold Mile, exceptional samples, together to a numerous series
of accessories of every kind, from the sets to the frustinis, with silver handles or of
ivory, to the bites, to the mordatures, to the bridles. They added to this further
donations as that of the marquis Plucked, of the marquis Dusmet and of the count Leonetti
of Santojanni.Tra the objects exposed more representative, the carriages are english
signalled, what the model Mail Coach and the London or Spider, both of the end of the
century XIX. Of invoice French they are some Phaetons, carriages from I walk, very light
with tall wheels. Some shop of the Neapolitan Solanos is the carriage Poney chaise also
dictates Basket and the Dog Kart open carriage to four places.
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