The Museo Civico Filangieri ("Filangieri civic museum") is an eclectic collection of artworks, coins, and books assembled in the nineteenth century by

Gaetano Filangieri, prince of Satriano Gaetano Filangieri, prince of Satriano (Naples, 1824–1892) was a prominent Neapolitan art historian and collector who founded the Museo Civico Filangieri. He inherited the titles of prince of Satriano in Calabria and duke of Taormina from his fa ...

, who gave it to the city of

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

as a museum. It is housed in his former palace, Palazzo Cuomo (or Como) on Via Duomo, by the church of San Severo al Pendino.

History

Palazzo Cuomo is in

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style with an

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stone façade. It was built between 1464 and 1490 by the Florentine

Giuliano da Maiano Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) was an Italian architect, intarsia-worker, and sculptor, the elder brother of Benedetto da Maiano, with whom he often collaborated. Biography He was born in the village of Maiano, near Fiesole, where his fathe ...

for a wealthy merchant, Angelo Como (or Cuomo). It was sold in 1587 and was incorporated into an adjacent monastery. In 1881–82, during the urban renewal of Naples, the entire building was dismantled and moved back some 20 meters to widen the street. The museum was inaugurated in 1888 by Gaetano Filangieri Junior (1824–92), principe di Satriano. Much of the collection was destroyed by the retreating German troops during September 1943. Since then works from other Neapolitan sites were subsequently incorporated to form a new collection. In recent decades, the museum has often been plagued with extended closures. Many of the exhibits are temporarily on display in the

Maschio Angioino Castel Nuovo (; "New Castle"), often called Maschio Angioino (; "Angevin Keep"), is a medieval castle located in front of Piazza Municipio and the city hall ( Palazzo San Giacomo) in central Naples, Campania, Italy. Its scenic location and impos ...

. Among the artists with paintings in the Museum are

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Bernardino Luini Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/82 – June 1532) was a north Italian painter from Leonardo's circle during the High Renaissance. Both Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio were said to have worked with Leonardo directly; he was described as having ...

Fedele Fischetti Fedele Fischetti (30 March 1732 – 25 January 1792) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period. He was born and died in Naples the capital of the Kingdom of Naples. Biography F. Fischetti was mainly active as a fresco painter for pa ...

Francesco Solimena Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. Biography Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of ...

Francesco Jerace Francesco Jerace (26 July 1853 – 18 January 1937) was an Italian sculptor. Biography He was born at Polistena in Calabria, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. He trained locally under his grandfather, a sculptor, but moved to Naples where h ...

Lorenzo Vaccaro Lorenzo Vaccaro (1655 – 10 August 1706) was an Italian late-Baroque sculptor. He worked in a formalized restrained style. He was born in Naples, the son of a lawyer. He apprenticed with Cosimo Fanzago and Dionisio Lazzari. He was a close frie ...

, Filippo Tagliolini, Gesualdo Gatti, and

Luca della Robbia Luca della Robbia (, also , ; 1399/1400–1482) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence. Della Robbia is noted for his colorful, Tin-glazed pottery, tin-glazed terracotta statuary, a technique which he invented and passed on to his ne ...

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