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Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro

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Museum of the Treasure of San Gennaro
Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro
Main entrance
Established2003
LocationVia Duomo, 149 Naples, Italy
Typereligious artifacts
Websitemuseosangennaro.it

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

It was opened in December 2003.

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.

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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