Behind the ancient private room of Maria Amalia of Saxony (room XIV), wife of Charles of Bourbon, opens the alcove of Maria Amalia, to be imagined as a large niche opening onto the Chamber, where the queen's bed was placed.
When in the nineteenth century the houses of the sovereigns were moved to the second floor, the ceiling of the Alcova was covered with a neoclassical decoration of frames, palmettes and gilded papier-mâché spirals on a white background, around a central rose window.
The fresco brought to light is a documented work of Nicola Maria Rossi (1690-1758), who according to documents was paid in 1739 five hundred ducats to paint the Queen in fresco in the Alcove of SM the Queen "a wish for a very happy offspring".
In the center we see La Notte, with the dark mantle, which protects the sleeper; Minerva - with the spear piercing the clouds - also smiling and bending downwards, royal protector of Fertility and a female figure who welcomes a nest with two white doves in her bosom. On the left the chariot of Aurora, indicating The Day and the god Harpocrates, depicted as a sculpture, alluding to silence
Title: Passetto della Regina
Author: Anonymous
Date:
Technique: Fresco
Displayed in: Royal Palace of Naples
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