Museo del Presepio "A. Stefanucci" - Roma

Description

The Museum collects nativity scenes, also spectacular, and figures of great historical and artistic value: more than 3,000 pieces, from all Italian regions and from dozens of nations, offer a broad and comprehensive overview of the various interpretations and settings of the Nativity, in addition to an exemplification of the materials that can be used. Cribs are exhibited, representing the best sector signatures, paper mache Lecce, Sicilian terracotta, wood, ceramics, glass, mother of pearl, stone, coal, cloth, gingerbread, eggs, corn leaves etc., As well as some statues of the Neapolitan XVIII centuries and XIX. Among the oldest pieces, a nativity scene built with small shells (Sicily - Sec. XVII), a Holy Child in ivory (Sec. XVII), a series of statues of the Bolognese school (Sec. XVIII). Among the scenic cribs, quote, besides a large crib in Neapolitan eighteenth-century style, different works of the Catalan school of plaster, as well as the best known "masters" of Italian and foreign crib.