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Item Number: 129889
Title: Le trésor de Naples: Les joyaux de San Gennaro
Author: Astor, Dorian (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9782070144792
Description: Paris: Gallimard, 2014. 28cm., pbk., 186pp. 125 illus., most in color. Exhibition held at Musee Maillol, Paris. French text. Summary: The treasure of San Gennaro will be shown for the first time outside Italy. One of the largest collections of jewellery in the world, the San Gennaro treasure is comparable with the crown jewels of France and England, but rather than belonging to the former ruling dynasties, the State or the Church, the treasure belongs to the people, to the Neapolitans themselves. San Gennaro, Saint Januarius, the principal patron saint of Naples, was martyred during the persecutions of Diocletian. The saint’s blood, collected in two ampoules, liquefi es three times a year – this has happened on the same dates for centuries – a phenomenon that science, even today, cannot explain. On 13 January 1527 an unusual contract was notarized between the people of Naples and the saint, who had been dead for over 1,200 years. In exchange for Januarius’s protection against the eruptions of Vesuvius and the plague, Neapolitans undertook to establish and keep a treasure in a chapel to be built in the cathedral and dedicated to him. Today this cult has lost none of its force. The most important masterpieces from the Treasure of San Gennaro, made and collected over the course of centuries, will be shown in this exhibition.
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