{"id":5874,"date":"2025-02-26T16:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/sedi\/palazzo-reale\/appartamento-di-etichetta\/sala-del-trono\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T14:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:40:35","slug":"throne-room","status":"publish","type":"sedi","link":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/sedi\/palazzo-reale\/state-apartement\/throne-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Throne Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This room has undergone many changes with the succession of different dynasties on the throne of Naples. The Neoclassical style vault dates from 1818: the gold-stuccoed female figures represent the twelve <\/span><b><i>Provinces of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; in the middle are the knightly orders of the Kingdom, as well as the symbols of Naples (the rampant horse) and Sicily (the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trinacria<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a head with three legs<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The red velvet canopy, protecting the space reserved for the king, dates to the eighteenth century. The current Empire-style throne was made in 1874, after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy; accordingly, the eagle on the backrest bears the coat of arms of the new ruling House of Savoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The portraits displayed on the walls range from the Bourbon dynasty to the kings and queens of Italy: among them are the groups of the <\/span><b><i>Legation from Turkey<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1741) and the <\/span><b><i>Legation from Tripoli <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1742), painted by Giuseppe Bonito on the occasion of the their visit to king Charles of Bourbon, and the full-length portrait of <\/span><b><i>King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Vincenzo Camuccini (1819).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The four <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">torch\u00e8res<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> imitating porphyry in the corners were produced by the French Sarreguemines workshop for Napoleon\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grand Cabinet <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the Quirinal palace in Rome; after the fall of the French Empire (1814) they were brought to Naples by king Joachim Murat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This room has undergone many changes with the succession of different dynasties on the throne of Naples. The Neoclassical style vault dates from 1818: the gold-stuccoed female figures represent the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1728,"parent":5860,"menu_order":10,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5874","sedi","type-sedi","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi\/5874","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi\/5874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5931,"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedi\/5874\/revisions\/5931"}],"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\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palazzorealedinapoli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}