{"id":1788,"date":"2025-02-04T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/?post_type=sedi&#038;p=1788"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:46:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:46:49","slug":"staircase-of-honour","status":"publish","type":"sedi","link":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/sedi\/palazzo-reale\/state-apartement\/staircase-of-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"Staircase of Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The monumental marble staircase leading to the State Apartments retains its original mid-seventeenth century design by architect Francesco Antonio Picchiatti and is modelled after the staircase of the Alc\u00e1zar in Toledo, Spain. Its Neoclassical style decoration dates from the mid-nineteenth century, when the palace was refurbished by architect Gaetano Genovese after the fire that damaged a portion of the building in 1837. At that time the former viceroyal palace \u2013 onto which the staircase was built \u2013 was demolished and wide windows were opened towards the Giardino Italia, transforming this area into a beautifully lit space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The walls are covered with full-length panels of marble from quarries in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; the bas-reliefs represent military trophies, <\/span><b><i>Glory among the symbols of Justice, War, Art, and Industry<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b><i>Victory between the Genius of Fame and Valour<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The four plaster statues in the niches represent <\/span><b><i>Fortitude<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (by Antonio Cal\u00ec), <\/span><b><i>Justice<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (by Gennaro Cal\u00ec), <\/span><b><i>Clemency<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (by Tito Angelini) and <\/span><b><i>Prudence<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (by Tommaso Solari).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The decorative elements of the vault in white stucco include the <\/span><b>rampant horse<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, symbol of the city of Naples and the <\/span><b>trinacria<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 a head with three legs \u2013 an emblem of Sicily. The Savoy royal symbol of the shield with a cross replaced the Bourbon coat of arms after 1861, when Naples was annexed to the new Kingdom of Italy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monumental marble staircase leading to the State Apartments retains its original mid-seventeenth century design by architect Francesco Antonio Picchiatti and is modelled after the staircase of the Alc\u00e1zar in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6474,"parent":5860,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1788","sedi","type-sedi","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sedi"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5867,"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi\/1788\/revisions\/5867"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi\/5860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}