Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Art museums

Housed in the rooms of Palazzo Primoli, the Museum presents a rich selection of paintings, sculptures and furnishings that belonged to the collections of brothers Giuseppe and Luigi Primoli, descendants on their mother’s side from Napoleon’s brother, Lucien Bonaparte. The Museum, whose furnishings recall those of a late-19th century patrician home, takes visitors through more than one century of European history through the memories of some of the most important members of the Bonaparte family: from Napoleon, to whom the first room is dedicated, to his brothers and sister Joseph, Pauline and Lucien, up to the members of the family’s successive generations, above all Napoleon III. Among the main works of the Napoleonic Museum there is the large portrait of Napoleon during the Battle of Wagram by Joseph Chabord, Lucien Bonaparte by François-Xavier Fabre, the Portrait of Charlotte Bonaparte dressed as a Canino peasant by Jean-Baptiste Wicar and, above all, the Portrait of Zenaide and Charlotte Bonaparte, the only painting by Jacques-Louis David preserved in Roman museums. The Napoleonic Museum also has numerous bodies of decorative art works, among which an important collection of ivory miniatures and a series of wax portraits by Giovanni Antonio Santarelli, while in the very rich collection of graphic works, drawings taken from two albums by Jean-Baptiste Wicar stand out.