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Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro

Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro

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The Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro is a museum of religious relics in Naples, in Campania in southern Italy.

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It was opened in December 2003.[citation needed]

The collection includes a large numbers of ex votos as well as silver and gold objects, paintings, bronze busts and an eighteenth-century gilded litter which was formerly used to carry the effigy of the saint in processions.[1]:27[2]:491


References

  1. Cristian Bonetto, Josephine Quintero (2010). Napoli e la Costiera Amalfitana (in Italian). Guide città EDT/Lonely Planet. Torino: EDT. ISBN 9788860405401.
  2. Ros Belford (2014). DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Italy. London: Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 9780241013502.

Further reading

  • A. Bellucci - Memorie storiche e artistiche del Tesoro nella cattedrale dal sec. XVI al XVIII - Napoli, 1915
  • F. Strazzullo - Guida del Tesoro di San Gennaro - Napoli, 1966
  • F. Strazzullo - La Real Cappella del Tesoro di San Gennaro - Napoli, 1978
  • P.Iorio - F.Recanatesi Museo del tesoro di San Gennaro - Gli Argenti - Napoli, 2003
  • P.Iorio - F.Recanatesi Museo del tesoro di San Gennaro - I Gioielli - Napoli, 2007
  • P.Iorio - F.Recanatesi Le 10 Meraviglie del Tesoro di San Gennaro - Roma, Poligrafico dello Stato 2010
  • P. Jorio, C. Paolillo, Il tesoro di Napoli. Capolavori del Museo di San Gennaro, Skira ed. 2013

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