Museo Mario Praz

Opened to the public in June 1995, is one of the rare examples of a house-museum of the Italian museum landscape. Created in sixty years of passionate collecting by Mario Praz (Rome 1896-1982) Anglicist and critic of international stature, looks like a noble house from the nineteenth century in all its details furnished with furniture, paintings, sculptures, carpets, curtains, chandeliers, bronze, crystal, porcelain, miniatures, silver and marble. Purchased on the antiquarian market Europe, in France, in Germany and England, as well as in Italy, these fittings offer a highly enjoyable overview of a 'philosophy of furniture' that ranges from neo-classical style of the late eighteenth century through the empire, until the more domestic Biedermeier style that characterizes the second half of the nineteenth century, rooms and receive bedrooms, libraries, study and dining room are offered one after the other to the visitor who is accepted as a home still inhabited, with fresh flowers in the vases and open books on the tables. The walls are painted many views of nineteenth-century interiors and it is not unusual to find someone between the vessels of the house of the objects reproduced in the paintings themselves, such as the great harp Erad of the early nineteenth century placed in the study, near a portrait of lady in blue dress fashion 1830 is backed by an identical instrument. Museum relatively small, but great atmosphere, full of over 1200 items, we will visit with some necessary arrangements for small groups of no more than 10/12 people accompanied by staff are guided along a selected route of 45 minutes.