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Correale di Terranova Museum

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Introduction

Within the 18th century Palazzo Correale, which has some interesting murals, is the Museo Correale, containing a small collection of 17th and 18th century Neapolitan art and an assortment of Greek and Roman artefacts. It is situated in an ancient patrician villa, surrounded by a citrus grove that looks onto the tuff ridge just in front of the Gulf of Naples. Steps lead down to the shore while the gardens offer views of the bay.

History

The Correale Museum is located on what was once land belonging to the territory called Cape of Cervo or Xeres, given to Zottola Correale in 1428 by Queen Joanna II of Angevin. The small building Correale built there was restructured in 1700 and in the early 1900s. The villa and the citrus grove, as well as the wonderful terrace of Belvedere, are part of a donation to the town of Sorrento by the brothers Pompeo and Alfredo Correale, the last descendants of the ancient patrician family. The family Correale was native of Scala, an ancient town situated in front of Ravello and, from historical data available in some documents as early as 1268, we know that they were part of the “Sedile” (ancient nobles associations) of Porta in Sorrento, of Portaretese in Salerno, of Porto in Naples. The brothers Correale therefore put at Sorrento community's disposal the villa belonging to their family, for housing the art collections gathered in their numerous travels all over Europe. The original character of patrician villa has been taken into account in the arrangement of the numerous collections, disposed as if they constituted the original furniture of the house. On their deaths the Correales donated both the land and building, with all the works of art it contained, to the city of Sorrento.

Location

Address: Via Correale 50 I-80067, Sorrento, Italy

Whats to see

The Museum keeps one of the most beautiful collections of Neapolitan painters dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth century, some works of the famous “School of Posillipo” and by some masters of the Flemish and French schools dating from the same period. It contains valuable Capodimonte and Svres ceramics, Murano glassware, Bohemia crystals and a collection of watches. The archaeological collection is very interesting as well. A special mention deserves the collection of Sorrento inlaid works dating from the nineteenth century, that occupies the whole hall and is rich in tables, furnishings and finely inlaid jewel cases. The poet and cabinet - maker Salvatore Gargiulo (Saltovar), from Sorrento, donated many of these pieces to the Museum. The library, containing various editions of works by Torquato Tasso and manuscripts of different kinds, is very interesting as well. It keeps also Torquato Tasso's mortuary mask. The Museum's collections are arranged on three floors for a total of twenty-four halls, to which has been added the garret recovered as an expository room.

Ground floor: Founders' hall - Chapel Correale - Section Sorrento tarsia dating from the nineteenth century - Archaeological Section - Romanesque section.

First floor: Paintings and furniture dating back to the eighteenth century by B Caracciolo, A. Vaccaro, Micco Spadaro, B. Corenzio, G. Lanfranco, P. De Matteis, G. Dei Po, N.M. Rossi, E. De Mura, G. Bonito, C. Amalfi - Oriental chinaware dating back to the seventeenth and eighteenth century - Hall of the Flemish painters: P.P. Rubens, J. Vari Kassel, A. Grimmer, M. Sweerts. Second floor: Still life paintings dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth century by G.B. Ruoppolo, T. Realfonso, G. Cusati, A. Ascione, G. Casissa, A. Belvedere - eighteenth and nineteenth century landscape - painters: J.R. Volaire, S. D?ms, G, Dughet, J. Rabbel, F. Vervloet. Landscape painters of the “School of Posillipo”: A.S, Pitloo, T. Duelere, G. Gigante - Hall of the Italian and European watches dating from the eighteenth century.

Third floor: Italian and foreigner majolica dating from the centuries seventeenth and eighteenth. Milano, Savona, Castelli, Sicily, Calabria, Mausticres, Ruen. Italian and foreign chinaware dating from the eighteenth century. Meissen, Wien, Ludwidsbourg, Nimphenburg, Zurich, Chelsa, Bow, S. Petersbourg - Capodimonte, Doccia, Venice - Belvedere. Another sight which is not to be missed is the view from the orange grove which ends in a Belvedere overlooking the entire Gulf.

Useful information

Telephone: 081 878 18 46
Open: 09:00 - 13:00
From 4 August to 4 October 2003, may also be visited afternoon and evening on two days a week: Friday and Saturday, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Closed: Tuesdays and public holidays.

Links

Official Website of Campania Region

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