Naples, the treasure of San Gennaro in the exhibition-It 's the world's most valuable!
March 8, 2011 "The Wonders of the Treasure of San Gennaro, the jewels" is the title of the exhibition organized by the museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro to be held in Naples, in seven different museums in the old city, from 8 April to 12 June. And for the first time in history, the most prestigious works of the legendary heritage of the saint will be exposed to the public simultaneously. Growing at seven sites, museums, all included in the historical center, the exhibition not only allows Caravaggio, The Seven Acts of Mercy or to admire the more than 150 works of 21,610 belonging to the treasure but also masterpieces like "The Seven Works of Mercy" by Caravaggio (Pio Monte della Misericordia) and the precious paintings by Luca Giordano (Diocesan Museum) and places immense artistic value will reopen for the occasion, as the Monumental Complex of Girolamini or anti Porta del Duomo. It is clear that il Caravaggio alone already provides a good excuse for a spring episode in Naples, but you can only admire with a long series of masterpieces of gold thanks to whom the thought of making powerful friend the saint, or rather winked to his devotees, or that the people of Naples that San Gennaro, the passateci citazione "never says no." So he had to think even laicissimo Joachim Murat, who in 1808 gave the patron a monstrance decorated with cherubs and festoons, above, a globe with a star and zodiacal band of putti heads, surmounted by two angels holding a heart and even barbed More on the case for the host, surrounded by a glory of angels among vines and clouds and a halo. The whole surmounted by a cross. The king gave it as an act of devotion to the saint at the suggestion of Napoleon and is one of the rare cases in which Bonaparte has not sacked,but won. The monstrance is one of the ten wonders on display, or the ten most important jewels that make up the treasure. As the pyx jeweled gold, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and diamonds donated by Ferdinand II of Bourbon in 1831, ol'ostensorio gold, precious stones, beads and enamel brought a few years later by Maria Theresa of Austria on the occasion of his wedding precisely with Ferdinand II. And again, the gold chalice donated by Pope Pius IX in 1849 to thank the people of Naples after being housed in asylum because of the motions of Mazzini Rome. And after a few decades, but new dynasty ritual equal, here the cross episcopal gold, emeralds and diamonds that Umberto I and Margherita di Savoia November 23, 1878 gave the first visit to Naples after their recruitment to the throne of Italy. And on all the series commissioned by the seventeenth-century the most precious necklace in the world (13 links of solid gold, seven diamonds, 276 rubies, 92 emeralds). Jewels of inestimable value to the movement of which will be taken extraordinary security measures with armored vehicles, armed guards, alarm systems, sophisticated, and the center of Naples will be protected by police helicopters. But with yet another act of faith, there are those who bet that San Gennaro alone would be enough to protect its heritage. - Gold necklace, silver and precious stones (rubies, emeralds, diamonds ...) Michael Given (more added up to 1879). The work, painted in 1679, was commissioned by the Deputation of the Cappella del Tesoro di San Gennaro to the bust of the Holy Shrine Cross in silver and coral (1707). - Pisside jeweled gold, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and diamonds (1831) donated by King Ferdinand II. en.daringtodo.com