Casa museo del pittore Domenico Mondo

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The palace inhabited by the painter Domenico Mondo (1723-1806), the first pupil of Francesco Solimena, is safekept in Capodrise, province of Caserta. He was a constant visitor of the Neapolitan Court during the second half of the 18th century and he realised many frescos in prestigious buildings, such as Caserta’s Royal Palace and important churches of the province. The palace is now a private museum-house, which was decorated by the same Mondo and it represents a local architecture with stylistic transitions of neoclassical and Baroque taste. These variations are present on the principal façade and in the decorative detailing of balconies and windows of the first floor. It is enclosed between the walls of the palace, where there is a small English style courtyard-garden, where natural and artificial elements are alternated like caves, rivers, secular trees, bushes, temples, ruins, arbours and pagodas. The courtyard is connected to Lady Hamilton, who planted the first camelia in the English style garden of Caserta’s royal palace, and one of her camelias is still cultivated in the garden to honour her. The trees of the garden, orange trees and tangerines, have painted trunks with lime; according to a local and rustic tradition, this technique is supposed to protect the trunks from infections and mould. The white colour of the lime is recalled by the garden’s furniture and ornamental stuccos.

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Via Domenico Mondo, 6 - Capodrise(CE)

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