29
OCTOBER
ISTITUTIONAL SESSION
ROMA
The visit was carried out by the curators Dr. Fabio Benedettucci and Dr. Marco Pupillo Dr .Federica Pirani Head, U.O. Sovrintendenza Capitolina Musei di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Visit to Museo Napoleonico Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali U.O. Musei d’Arte Medievale e Moderna The Napoleonic Museum of Rome is housed in the ground floor of Palazzo Primoli, near Piazza Navona, in the heart of the city. The building was built in the Renaissance and altered several times until the early twentieth century. From the mid-nineteenth century, the Primoli Counts became the owners of the building. They were related to the Bonaparte family through the marriage of Peter, Count of Leaf, and Carlotta Bonaparte, was born from the marriage of two grandchildren of Napoleon, Charles Luciano, son of Lucien Bonaparte, and Zenaide, daughter of Joseph. The Museum was established in 1927 thanks to the legacies of the two Primoli brothers: Luigi, who died in 1925, and Joseph, who died in 1927. The two brothers, who lived in Paris during the reign of Napoleon III, spent a lifetime gathering memorabilia related to the history of the Bonaparte family. Paintings, sculptures, works of decorative art, drawings, prints, furniture, documents, books, photographs are the basis of the collections of the Museum, which includes about 15,000 works, 1000 of which are on exhibition Furnished by preserving the taste of the noble Roman house of the early twentieth century, the halls of the museum tell the story of the members of the Bonaparte family who were more closely associate with Italy. The artwork interact with everyday objects, by relating a grandiose history- that of the Emperors, heroic deeds and battles - with the small, petit histoire of characters erased by time, forgotten and unknown to today’s public. The visit highlighted the history of the collection, the criteria of museum exhibitions and continued on to Palazzo Braschi in the laboratories for the restoration of paper and paintings regarding the municipal museums of Rome.
WWW.ASSORESTAURO.ORG
13