MUSEUM OF MARIO PRAZ ( MUSEO MARIO PRAZ )

 

The museum is situated on the third floor of Palazzo Primoli, where the Napoleonic Museum is also housed.

It is the apartment Mario Praz lived in from 1969 onwards.

Praz was a distinguished scholar of English literature but also a unique collector of antiques, he died in 1982 at the age of 86.

Since 1995 in those same rooms that were the setting of the growth of that "archive of experiences" that Praz loved to call his "museum of the soul", over 1200 pieces including inlaid bookcases, large mirrors, sofas, chandeliers, paintings and objects of varying nature, all together reconstruct, along a tour of nine rooms, the coordinates of Neo-classical taste, which was popular between the end of the eighteenth century and the first half of the following century, whose rise and fall the same scholar himself defined with an apt seasonal metaphor:"it had its spring in the France of Louis XV, its summer in the Empire and its languid autumn in the delicious awkwardness of the Biedermeier". The unique collection of fans and the canopy bed from the Castle of Fontainebleau deserve a special mention.

Information and Addresses

Address Via Giuseppe Zanardelli, 1

Visiting Hours Every day from 9.00 am to 2.00 pm and from 2.30 pm to

7.30 pm

Closed Monday, Dec. 25, Jan. 1, May 1

Telephone 066861089; Fax 06 3221579

Price Free admission

 

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