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Campania · Glass collection
Duca di Martina Museum in Villa Floridiana
Naples
In the neoclassical Villa Floridiana on the Vomero hill, the museum holds one of Italy's largest decorative arts collections, with over 6,000 works from the 12th to the 19th century. Its glass holdings — some two hundred pieces — are among the most significant parts of the collection: Venetian and façon de Venise glass, Bohemian and English crystal, milk glass, and painted and églomisé glass from the 15th to the 18th century.
What to see
- Some 200 Venetian, Bohemian and painted glasses (15th–18th c.)
- Milk glass, opalines and églomisé pieces
- The neoclassical Villa Floridiana and its park above the bay