4288 x 2848 px | 36,3 x 24,1 cm | 14,3 x 9,5 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
4. April 2015
Ort:
Naples, Campania, Italy, Europe
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The Gothic Underground The underground is the evocative and imposing environment of the fourteenth-century foundations of the Certosa, a construction that began in May 1325 at the behest of Charles, Duke of Calabria, son of the sovereign Robert of Anjou. A powerful and elegant work of engineering, with a succession of pillars and pointed vaults supporting the entire Certosa structure, the marble works of the Sculptures and Epigraphs Section are exhibited in the long corridors and in the open spaces. A collection that was formed through purchases, bequests, donations, transfers and deposits between the end of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. The exhibition includes about one hundred and fifty marble works, distributed in the various rooms according to a chronological order (from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century) but also respecting the contexts of origin. Among the marble sculptures, the most important works from the 14th century are: the sarcophagus of Beatrice del Balzo, obtained from the reuse of a Roman basin from the 2nd-3rd century AD, the fragment of a reclining female figure (perhaps Mary of Valois) from the workshop of the great Sienese sculptor-architect Tino di Camaino, the so-called Mother of Corradino (perhaps Mary of Burgundy, wife of Charles I of Anjou or more probably a Saint Catherine of Alexandria), and a relief slab depicting Death and Franceschino by Brignale (1361), a singular allegorical ex-voto built on the contrast between the sense of attachment to life and the inevitability of death. Among the works from the 15th century, noteworthy are the double tombstone, depicting father and daughter, of the de Miro family (1413), still of 14th-century workmanship and design, and, for the first half of the 16th century, the splendid Madonna and Child of Raphaelesque culture. The visit to the underground ends with a masterpiece by one of the main protagonists of European sculpture of the eighteenth centu
