Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Art museum in San Ferdinando district, Naples, Italy.
Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano is a Baroque palace on Via Toledo characterized by a grand marble staircase and ornate frescoes adorning its interior walls. The rooms feature high ceilings and decorated surfaces that showcase the refinement of its original design as a noble residence.
The palace was built in the 1630s under Duke Giovanni Zevallos and architect Cosimo Fanzago as a lavish noble residence. Mid-17th century ownership by Flemish merchant Jan van den Eynde transformed it into a repository for important artworks.
The palace housed the Gallerie d'Italia from 1999 to 2022, when the collection moved to Palazzo del Banco di Napoli on the same street. Its rooms displayed about 120 paintings and sculptures from the 17th to early 20th centuries, among them Caravaggio's The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, considered his last work.
The museum that occupied the piano nobile until 2022 has moved to Via Toledo 177, in the former Banco di Napoli headquarters; the palace at number 185 is a separate address. The entrance portal by Cosimo Fanzago opens onto a courtyard later covered by a glass ceiling with floral motifs, now a covered hall. The monumental marble staircase, flanked by 19th-century frescoes, leads to the first floor.
The Caravaggio that drew visitors here, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, left the palace in 2022, when the Intesa Sanpaolo galleries moved to the former Banco di Napoli headquarters at Via Toledo 177. The painting is still owned by the bank, so it remains in Naples, but not in these rooms.
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