Image: Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
The Museo di Capodimonte in Naples is displaying a ciborium designed by Cosimo Fanzago, adding the historic object to the museum’s visitor route on the second floor.
According to the museum, the work was made between 1619 and 1623. Fanzago designed it to contain the Santissimo Sacramento—the Blessed Sacrament—for the church of Santa Patrizia in Naples.
The object’s current presentation places it within the Museo di Capodimonte’s second-floor itinerary. The museum’s announcement identifies the work as the ‘Ciborio’ and does not describe the display as a temporary exhibition or provide an end date.
Its original setting was Santa Patrizia, a church in Naples, where the ciborium served a liturgical function. The work therefore connects the museum’s current presentation with the religious and artistic history of the city, while retaining its association with the church for which it was designed.
The announcement gives no further details about the installation, conservation history or the circumstances of the object’s move to the museum. The ‘Ciborio’ is currently included in the second-floor visitor route at the Museo di Capodimonte.
