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- The Museum has a particularly rich collection of Greek and Roman sculptures, deriving both from the excavation of various sites - above all around Vesuvius and in the Phlegrean Fields - and from private sources, the most important being the Farnese collection, a fundamental testimony of Rainassence tastes in collecting antiquities.
In part it conserves the layout decided at the beginning of this century, as in the entrance hall, where you can see honorary sculptures from Pompei and Herculaneum, and in the sector dedicated to Ancient Greece, in which the Galleries of the Tyrannicides and the Great Masters illustrate respectively the severe and classical phases of Greek sculpture by means of some original works and more numerous Roman copies. The new layout will bring together all the Farnese marbles, and the first step was completed recently with the recomposition of the sculptures found in the 16th century during the family's excavation of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. Another room displays Greek and Roman portrait busts from the Farnese collection. Finally, two rooms contain temporary exhibitions of other Farnese marbles and miscellaneous sculptures.
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Farnese gems
The Farnese collection of engraved gems has as its nucleus the specimens collected by Cosimo de' Medici and Lorenzo il Magnifico in the 15th century and comprises works of the highest quality produced in Greek, Roman and Renaissence times.
The most famous piece in the "Treasure of the Magnificent" is the bowl made of sardonyx agate known as the Farnese Cup, one of the largest cameos in existence, produced at the court of the Ptolemies in Alexandria about 150 B.C.
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| The National Archaeological Museum is the direct successor of the Royal Bourbon Museum, one of Europe's oldest and largest museums. |
VISITING HOURS
Every day:
9:00 am - 20:00 pm (entry actually allowed 19:00 p.m.)
Closed: Tusday, a° January, 25 December
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