In recent decades the National Archaeological Museum in Naples has completely renewed most of its exhibition designs. The new general guide accompanies visitors to discover the new layout of one of the world’s most important museums, introducing them step by step to all its collections. In addition to being an essential aid for visitors, the book is also designed to be very readable, recounting a single story that unfolds in three large chapters: Territories and Cultures, devoted to the “many cultures that have met, clashed and entwined” in the regions around the Gulf of Naples, from Prehistory to the waning of Magna Graecia; Spaces of Art and Everyday Life, dealing with the museum’s best loved collections from the Vesuvian sites and their incomparable ability to immerse us in the lives of Roman men and women; Historical and Other Collections, which starts from the Farnese Collection, the supreme Renaissance collection of classical sculptures, to retrace some of the principal stages in the history of modern taste for antiquity through masterpieces that seem to question us on the value of classical art for the present.
English edition, translations by Oona Smyth and Lauren Sunstein for Scriptum, Rome.
€ 22,00