National Archaeological Museum, Naples
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The National Archaeological Museum of
Building
The building was built as a cavalry barracks in 1585. From 1616 to 1777 it was the seat of the
Collections
The museum hosts extensive collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. Their core is from the
Marbles
The greater part of the museum's classical sculpture collection largely comes from the Farnese Marbles, important since they include Roman copies of classical Greek sculpture, which are in many cases the only surviving indications of what the lost works by ancient Greek sculptors such as
- The Farnese Hercules, which fixed the image of Hercules in the European imagination.
- The star catalog of Hipparchus
- The Farnese Bull, widely considered the largest single sculpture ever recovered from antiquity.
- The group Harmodius and Aristogeiton, a Roman copy of a bronze work that once stood in the Agora of Athens
- The Aphrodite Kallipygos
- The Farnese Artemis, again a Roman copy of a Greek original
- a collection of busts of Roman emperors
- another set of Roman sculptures (again mainly copies of Greek work) that (like the Hercules) once stood in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome.
Bronzes from the Villa of the Papyri
A major collection of ancient Roman bronzes from the Villa of the Papyri is housed at the museum. These include the Seated Hermes, a sprawling Drunken Satyr, a bust of Thespis, another variously identified as Seneca[1] or Hesiod,[2] and a pair of exceptionally lively runners.
Mosaics
The museum's Mosaic Collection includes a number of important mosaics recovered from the ruins of Pompeii and the other Vesuvian cities. This includes the Alexander Mosaic, dating from c. 100 BC, originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii. It depicts a battle between the armies of Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia. Another mosaic found is that of the gladiatorial fighter depicted in a mosaic found from the Villa of the Figured Capitals in Pompeii.
Egyptian Collection
With 2,500 objects,
Secret Cabinet
The
In September 1860, when the forces of
- The Placentarius, the small bronze statue represents a distinctly ithyphallic old nude man who, on the palm of his hand, holds a little silver tray.
Gallery
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Fish Catalogue mosaic
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Fish and ducks, Roman mosaic
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Achilles and Agamemnon, scene from Book I of the Iliad, Roman mosaic
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'Cave canem' (beware of the dog) mosaic
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Achilles' surrender of Briseis to Agamemnon, from the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii, fresco, 1st century AD
See also
References
- ^ John Walsh and Debra Gribbon, The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections: A Museum for the New Century (Getty Publicans, 1997), p. 45.
- ^ Jerome Jordan Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age (Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 162.
- ^ Borriello, M.R.; Giove, T. (2000). La collezione egiziana del museo archeologico di Napoli: guida alla collezione (in Italian). Naples: Electa, Soprintendenza archeologica di Napoli e Caserta. p. 9.
- ^ Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli Archived 2012-02-06 at the Wayback Machine (in English)
- ^ "Menologium Rusticum Colotianum — Percorso SuperMANN", Official channel (in Italian), Youtube: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, 7 June 2023.
- ^ "Menologium Rusticum Colotianum — Percorso GigaMANN", Official channel (in Italian), Youtube: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, 2 April 2023.