Fine art museums Italy

Since 2022, the collections of the Intesa Sanpaolo bank are exhibited in the Palazzo del Banco di Napoli. The second floor offers a panorama of artistic production in Naples from the ^17th to the ^19th century. In addition to paintings by Van Wittel and Artemisia Gentileschi, there is one of the treasures of the collection, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (1610) by Caravaggio, painted shortly before his death. On the^second floor, there is a collection of Attic and Magna Grecia vases and a section of contemporary art.

Gallery of Saint Pius V. This little gallery exhibits tapestries. Admire the ceilings decorated with representations of the Evangelists and Doctors of the Church, painted by Giorgio Vasari and Jacopo Zucchi.

Sobieski Hall. This room, which is part of the apartments of Pius V, takes its name from the painting that decorates the main wall, by the Polish painter Jan Matejko (1883). It shows John III Sobieski, King of Poland, defeating the Turks against the ramparts of Vienna, which was besieged in 1683.