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The “Virtue” found back to home. There is an air of celebration at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples for the “return” on the premises of the historic Bourbon palace of some important works belonging at one time to the complex of Santa Patrizia in Naples. It is true masterpieces that made up the ciborium dedicated to the Holy of pregnant women and their unborn children that every year, as well as with San Gennaro, marks the miracle of liquefaction: small bronzes depicting the Virtues, which will return this morning to decorate the ancient tabernacle exposed to the first floor of the museum hill.
The chronicles tell that the “Virtues” were stolen in the seventies in the church of via San Gregorio Armeno. Is the police touched the core of Cultural Heritage of Naples led by commander Carmine Elepfante recover after almost forty years. The same “task force” of the Force who, a few months ago, reported from a private collection in Austria the “Sphinx” of the “Body of Naples” in the cities of the Gulf.
The Virtues adorned the tabernacle of Santa Patrizia: a masterpiece of jewelry and sculptural art that was commissioned by Cosimo Fanzago, the sculptor of the obelisks symbol of Naples (Piazza del Gesù and San Domenico Maggiore), in 1619, the nuns of Santa Patrizia for the external church of the monastery. Fanzago facility made available to the design of the ciborium and was joined in the execution of the works by Nicola Botti marble workers and Romolo and Bartolomeo Balsimelli. The work was carried out between 1620 and 1621. The artist also prepared models for the statues representing the Virtues, which were then cast in bronze, gold. And then positioned on the big tabernacle.
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