ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
SCULPTURES
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The vast sixteenth century palace where the Archaeological Museum is located was originally home to a university. But in the second half of the 18th century, King Ferdinand IV of Bourbon used it as a...
OBJECTS FROM POMPEI
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As you can imagine, the excavations of the Vesuvius cities that were begun by the Bourbons around the middle of the 1700s have radically altered our knowledge of the ancient world, offering us an...
ALEXANDER MOSAIC
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Unfortunately, not a single painting remains from the great painters of antiquity. We must content ourselves with their names, such as Zeuxis or Parrhasius, and descriptions of their works and the...
