Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte.

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte - Museum Capodimonte, Napoli, Città metropolitana di Napoli, Campania, Repubblica Italiana.

Farnese and Bourbon Armory.
   The Capodimonte Museum's armory consists of an older, original core, belonging to the Farnese family and its garrisons (15th and 17th centuries), and a Bourbon core (18th and 19th centuries).
   The former includes firearms, defensive weapons, handguns, swords and daggers, shotguns, polearms, combat and tournament armor, and jewelry. The latter includes etched and partially gilded weapons belonging to members of the Farnese family.
   Most of the armoury was made by experienced Milanese armourers active between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the renowned Pompeo della Chiesa. The armory retains its exceptional value despite the damage and disintegration suffered after the Napoleonic occupation. The Bourbon firearms section is prestigious; some were brought to Naples by Charles in 1734 for hunting, while others were manufactured by the Royal Factory of Naples, founded in Torre Annunziata to meet the needs and requirements of the Bourbon army.
   Gunsmiths, including Michele Battista, Emanuel Estevan, Carlo La Bruna, Biagio Ignesti, and Natale del Moro, are authorized to produce a series of pieces inspired by Spanish models.
   The collection also includes rifles and pistols from English and French factories, gifts to sovereigns, including a pair of rifle pistols signed by Jean Baptiste La Roche, a renowned gunsmith in the service of Louis XV of France, a gift from the French royal family to Charles of Bourbon on the occasion of the birth of his son Ferdinand in 1751.
   Pistols, swords, and daggers instead come from the Real Fabbrica or Fabbrica degli Acciai, the latter housed in a former porcelain building in the forest of Capodimonte since 1782. There are also several examples of model cannons and mortars used by the artillery school of the kingdoms.

The museum displays the works of famous masters:

Pompeo della Cesa, Milan, Italy.