Naples and Paris share a checkered history, one bound by Catholicism, pastry, and a centuries-old artistic exchange—and fractured by conflict and Napoleonic occupation. Its principal art institutions, ...

Inside the Capodimonte museum in Naples lives a marvel of 18th-century Rococo design. Known as the porcelain boudoir of Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of Naples, the chamber evokes an otherworldly ...

Originally commissioned in 1738 as a hunting lodge for Charles VII, king of Naples and Sicily, this grand palace took more than a century to construct. These days, it serves as a museum, hanging works ...

Naples is not just a B-list Italian city or a gritty point of departure to Capri or Pompeii. It’s the former seat of an entire kingdom that, after Italy’s unification, had its treasury looted and its ...

The Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, went to Naples to the Capodimonte Museum to carry out an inspection at the construction site and check the implementation status of the «large ...

Marcello Venusti after Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Last Judgment (detail), 1549, oil tempera on poplar wood, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples. Credit: Photo courtesy of the Museum of Fine ...

Last time the top jobs at some of the country’s most prestigious art institutions came up, many went to foreign candidates. This time, that’s unlikely. By Elisabetta Povoledo Elisabetta Povoledo ...

One of the most important Italian museums, Capodimonte Museum is situated in the Capodimonte Royal Palace. The museum houses several prominent artworks from different Italian schools of paintings, inc ...

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APPRAISER: Capodimonte is the name of a famous Italian porcelain factory near Naples that existed about 250 years ago in the middle of the 18th century. And the mark was a capital "N" with a crown ...