Room 7 - Library

The elegant Royal Apartment wouldn’t be complete without a Library, whose vault is decorated by the Florentine architect Domenico Chelli, set designer of the San Carlo Theatre.

It consisted of a small room optically enlarged with landscape scenes, painted as they were large windows opening onto the surrounding countryside and adorned with various decorations, among which was the masonry Greek.

On the neoclassical shelves, made of mahogany by the cabinet maker Antonio Ross, were fourteen Etruscan style vases – reflecting the collecting fashion of the time.

Thirty-four small doors of the cabinets stood out on the dark mahogany shelves, and they were all upholstered in green silk, like the curtains, matching the leather top of the mahogany round table.

The Carditello Library was destroyed during the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799. It was later used by the king for meetings and renamed the 'Hall of rustic paintings', with reference to the views on the walls. Among them, the View of the Royal Palace of Caserta from the Convent of St. Francis of the Capuchin Friars was recognised.