Museum and national Galleries of Capodimonte
The king of Naples, Charles of Borbone, that so many famous monuments wanted for his Italian capital had the idea of the construction of a country house of hunting on the laughing hill of Capodimonte, choice as reserve of real hunting. Attracted by the around seven kilometers of secular wood, the Carasale it entrusted, that already sovraintendeva the jobs for the Theater St. Charles, of the project, giving the direction of the jobs to Giovanni Anthony Medrano and Anthony Canevari. The first stone was set in 1738, but the construction extended for around a ventennio for the enormous difficulty that represented the transport of the piperno dug in the caves of Lowland. Finally in 1758 the beloved collections Farnese, inherited by Charles for by maternal, you/they were systematized in the ample building from the vast courtyards. Ferdinando IV, successor of Charles, entrusts the amplification of the Palace and the care of the park to the architect Ferdinando Fuga. With the transfer of all the collections of art in the Building of the Studies, actual National Archaeological Museum, happened during the French decade (1806-15), the Palace becomes residence of Joseph Bonaparte and then of Gioacchino Murat. The residential function is confirmed by Ferdinando, returned by the Sicilian exile in 1815, that it undertakes new jobs in the building and in the park. A team of painters, sculptors and artisans have called to decorate the rooms of the Palace, particularly the Saloon of the Parties and to half century the building is finally completed. With the unity of Italy, Capodimonte passes to the Savoias, that promote thanks to the action of Annibale Sacco, the enrichment of the harvests of art with the transfer of you furnish and objects from the suppressed real sites borbonici, among which the famous boudoir of Maria Amalia of Sassonia, coming from Porticos or the monumental marmoreal floor of Roman age from the Favorite of Resin. Contemporarily it also sets out the creation of a gallery of modern art acquiring paintings of contemporary painters in prevalence Neapolitan. With the death of Sack the attempt to melt the two souls of Capodimonte as residence and as museum, of done it fails. The building is exclusively destined for residence of the dukes of Aosta. In 1920 it passes from the endowment of the Crown to the demanio, but only in 1950, with the approval of the Minister of the public education, it is decided to restore you his flood and exclusive function of Museum, effecting the project of Bruno Molaioli that it foresees the return of the collections of art medioevale and modern from the National Museum.