Capodimonte 2

Although it was mostly the paintings, and the great building itself, Capodimonte also holds many other items of interest. All in all an impressive collection in an impressive setting.

E. g., this sarcophogal sculpture, half-skeleton



Yes, but are they diswasher-safe? The royal family's good dishes and solid-gold 
table ornaments



Capodimonte as well as Caserta Royal Palace (which we'll 
see in a couple days) are really what I would characterize 
as double-barrel shot-gun houses: two parallel 400 foot long 
halls, between which are the main chambers/halls/etc., and 
off which are a variety of other chambers; here you can see 
down one hall at Capodimonte; there are of course three 
floors of this

Family dining room

Ball room or somesuch



We-actually-know-what-this-is department: a beautiful scale model of the Temple 
of Isis at Pompei (the one donated by the six year old), as it would have looked 
with all its marble and paint (table-top size; well, a large table)

Court-painter was actually a major industry in by-gone days, 
as each monarch would send likenesses of him/herself to all 
his/her fellow divine-righters; "Your pal always, Napoleon"

Plus this nice vase

Some of the tapestries; yes, all Flemish, 17th-18th century,

large enough each to play hand-ball on

Detail of a battle scene

And more rooms of paintings, large ones too