Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
The Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte holds a small but significant collection of Indigenous American artifacts. Some objects—mainly colonial productions from New Spain—can be traced back to the Farnese collections in Parma, while a group of four items (two Mixtec Mesoamerican penates, a wooden Kágaba-Kogi sculpture from the Sierra de Santa Marta, Colombia, and a Chimú bottle from the northern coast of Peru) derives from the collection of Cardinal Stefano Borgia (1731–1804).
References
Domenici, D. 2023. “The Grand History of a Small Collection. American Objects from the Farnese and Borgia collections at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte (Naples, Italy).” Functions of European Museums with American Collections, Contributions to New World Archeology, ed. V. Solanilla, 16: 9-22.
Martino, L. 1996. “Dalla «Galleria delle cose rare» di Parma al Museo di Capodimonte. Gli oggetti d’arte di Casa Farnese.” In Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte. La collezione Farnese. Le arti decorative, 119–129. Napoli: Electa.
Links
Via Miano, 2, 80131 Napoli (NA)
