Contemporary to the Padula one, the complex of the Charterhouse on the Vomero hill dominating the city is part of the context of Angevin religious patronage and shows the expansion of the Cartusians order into the Kingdom of Naples.

To create it, the foreman of the angevin court was called, Tino di Camaino, replaced by Attanasio Primario when he died. Of that first plant, the Gothic subterraneans have come down to us, and incorporated the pre-existing structures of the Belforte Castle. With the Counter-Reform, from 1581, there were multiple changes to the rooms, initially modernised in a Baroque style by the architect Giovanni Antonio Dosio who restructured the Great Cloister. The architect Giovan Giacomo di Conforto, author of the cistern of the cloister, followed him. From 1623 until 1656, the factory was directed by Cosimo Fanzago, who intervened in the church, in the Vicar’s apartment and in every part of the structure. Its unique imprint is in the sumptuous decorations with marble inlays f the most various colors and origins. In the eighteenth century, the architect and engineer Andrea Canale as well as his son Nicola Tagliacozzi Canale, the engraver, succeeded each other, and they inserted elements of the new Rococo style. During the reign of Charles of Bourbon, oriental decorations were introduced in some spaces of the Quarto del Priore, frescoed by the artist Crescenzio Gamba. Damaged during the revolution of 1799, and after having overcome the events of the religious orders in the Napoleonic age, subjected to restorations in the 1830s and definitely left by the monks, the complex of the Charterhouse became a museum in 1866 and opened to the public the following year.

In addition to the visit to the monumental courtyard, the Church with its art works, the gothic subterraneans, the cloister, the refectory, the small cloister and the Quarto del Priore, the museum houses innumerable architectural, pictorial and sculptural masterpieces. As well as porcelains, precious objects, naval models, Naples panoramic views, portraits of the Bourbons, Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century works, still-life, 950 Neapolitan nineteenth-century paintings with the Posilippo School, sixteen thousand sheets of prints and drawings, nineteenth-century scenic designs of the San Carlo Theatre and even rare historical carriages artistically decorated. The Monks seventeenth-century Pharmacy and Dispensary is a must see.


Information:
all week, except Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Full ticket: 6.00€
Reduced ticket: 2,00€

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