Museo Mario Praz, House museum at Palazzo Primoli, Rome, Italy
The Museo Mario Praz occupies Palazzo Primoli and contains over one thousand two hundred paintings, sculptures, and furniture pieces filling ten exhibition rooms. The collection spans European decorative arts from several centuries, arranged within the palace's historic rooms.
An English literature professor and art critic built this collection over sixty years before his death in nineteen eighty-two. His selection of European artworks and antiques reflects his deep knowledge of craftsmanship and design history across different regions.
The rooms display furniture and decorative objects from England, France, Russia, Bohemia, and Germany. Visitors see how European craftsmanship from different countries came together in a single home.
The visit works best if you move slowly through the rooms and observe the details of each object. The spaces are furnished closely together, so coming in small groups and allowing time for each room makes sense.
Fresh flowers stand in vases in each room and open books sit on tables, preserving the feeling of an inhabited home from the eighteen hundreds. This carefully maintained detail makes walking through the rooms feel like visiting a living, private residence.
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