Museo di Capodimonte is an art museum located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a grand Bourbon palazzo in Naples, Italy. The museum is the prime repository of Neapolitan painting and decorative art, with several important works from other Italian schools of painting, and some important ancient Roman sculptures. It is one of the largest museums in Italy. The museum was inaugurated in 1957.
Saint Jerome and the Angel of Judgement is an oil on canvas painting by Jusepe de Ribera, signed and dated by the artist in 1626. It was produced as a display for a side chapel next to the high altar of the church of Santissima Trinità delle Monache, which also housed Ribera's Earthly Trinity. The religious order running the building was suppressed in 1813 and the canvas instead entered the Bourbon Collection and the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples - it still hangs in the latter.
The Temples of Paestum is an 1824 painting by Antonie Sminck Pitloo. It shows two of the temples at Paestum, probably during an excavation.
Ptolemy Philadelphus in the Library of Alexandria is an 1813 oil on canvas painting by Vincenzo Camuccini. It is now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples.
Massacre of the Innocents is a tempera on panel painting by Matteo di Giovanni, produced between 1450 and 1500 possibly in 1468, 1478, or 1488) probably in Siena. It was commissioned by Alfonso II of Naples, then living in Siena as part of the campaign against the Medici. It was probably produced to commemorate the inhabitants of Otranto killed by the Ottomans in 1480 whose relics were moved into the church of Santa Caterina at Formiello at Alfonso's request - the same church also originally housed the painting. It is now in the National Museum of Capodimonte.
Charles III's Departure for Spain, Seen from the Sea is a 1759 oil on canvas painting by Antonio Joli, showing Charles leaving Naples to be crowned king of Spain after the death of his two elder brothers. It and its pair Charles III's Departure for Spain, Seen from the Land are now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples.
Charles III's Departure for Spain, Seen from the Land is a 1759 oil on canvas painting by Antonio Joli, showing Charles leaving Naples to be crowned king of Spain after the death of his two elder brothers. It and its pair Charles III's Departure for Spain, Seen from the Sea are now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples.
Last Judgement is a 1549 tempera on panel painting by Marcello Venusti after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel The Last Judgement (1541). It is now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples.
Harvest Time at Carditello is a 1791 oil on canvas painting by Jakob Philipp Hackert, who had become a painter to the royal court at Naples. In 1791 he was commissioned to paint frescoes in the 'salottino' of the manorhouse at Carditello, but the cycle was partly destroyed by anti-Bourbon figures following the unification of Italy.
Allegory of Justice is an oil on panel painting by Giorgio Vasari. The painting was commissioned on 6 January 1543 by cardinal Alessandro Farnese for the main room of the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome, and eas executed the same year. It and the rest of the Farnese collection were later moved to Naples and it is now in the National Museum of Capodimonte.
Charles of Bourbon Visiting Pope Benedict XIV at the Coffee House del Quirinale is a painting by Giovanni Paolo Pannini, commissioned by Charles of Bourbon in 1746 and completed the same year. It showed and commemorated Charles' visit to Rome after the Bourbon victory over the Austrians at the Battle of Velletri in 1744 - he and pope Benedict XIV were already friends and had signed a Concordat in 1741.
Charles of Bourbon Visiting St Peter's Basilica is a painting by Giovanni Paolo Pannini, commissioned by its subject Charles of Bourbon in 1746 and completed later that year. It was part of the same commission as the same artist's Charles of Bourbon Visiting Pope Benedict XIV at the Coffee House del Quirinale and both works are now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples.
Ferdinand I and His Family is a 1782 oil on canvas painting by Angelica Kauffman, now in Room 37 of the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples.
Portrait of Charles of Bourbon in Hunting Dress is an oil on canvas painting by Antonio Sebastiani, likely produced in the 1730s either whilst Charles was still in the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza or at the latest during the early years of his rule of Naples and Sicily - Sebastiani was the court painter. It is now in Room 32 of the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples, part of the building's former royal apartments.
Portrait of Charles IV of Spain is a portrait of Charles IV of Spain in hunting dress with a hunting dog. Both it and a pendant of his wife were long thought to be a copy after an autograph work by Francisco Goya, but they have now been definitively reattributed as autograph works by Goya himself, produced late in the 18th century. Goya was a court artist to the royal family, though most of his paintings of them are still in the Prado Museum. The two works were commissioned by Charles's daughter Maria Isabella of Spain along with. It was sent to Maria Isabella and they are both now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples.
Portrait of Maria Luisa of Parma is a portrait of Maria Luisa of Parma, wife of Charles IV of Spain, produced as a pendant painting to a portrait of her husband. Both works were long thought to be a copy after an autograph work by Francisco Goya, but they have now been definitively reattributed as autograph works by Goya himself, produced late in the 18th century. Goya was a court artist to the royal family, though most of his paintings of them are still in the Prado Museum. The two works were commissioned by the couple's daughter Maria Isabella of Spain. They were sent to Maria Isabella and they are both now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples.
Portrait of Ferdinand IV is an 1759 painting by Anton Raphael Mengs, now in the National Museum of Capodimonte. It shows Ferdinand IV of the Kingdom of Naples, latter known as Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, and was commissioned by his mother Maria Amalia of Saxony to celebrate Ferdinand's accession to the throne of Kingdom of Naples aged eight after his father Charles of Bourbon's abdicated that throne to be king of Spain. This makes it the first official painting of the new king, produced by the artist in October 1759 in around a month, though it was critiqued by the other court artists Luigi Vanvitelli, Giuseppe Bonito and Francesco Liani, who had been passed over for the commission. Mengs also produced in 1760 a second copy of the painting, which was send to Ferdinand's parents to Madrid and which is now in the Prado Museum. Visually the main difference between the two paintings is the signature on 1760 copy, located on the square tile in bottom left corner.
Portrait of Philip II is an oil on canvas portrait by Titian of Philip II of Spain wearing the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece. It is in the collection of the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy.
Portrait of Joachim Murat is an 1808 oil on canvas painting of Joachim Murat by François Gérard, now in Room 54 of the National Museum of Capodimonte. It shows its subject in the pose of Michelangelo's David and was commissioned by him after his accession to the throne of the Two Sicilies for the Palace of Portici. It is a replica of a painting commissioned for the Diana Gallery at the Tuileries Palace, later moved to the Palace of Versailles.
Equestrian Portrait of Charles of Bourbon is a mid-18th century oil on canvas portrait of Charles of Bourbon, produced by Francesco Liani towards the end of Charles' rule in Naples before becoming Charles III of Spain. Liani also produced a portrait of Charles' wife, Maria Amalia of Saxony. Both works are now in Room 34 of the National Museum of Capodimonte.
