Museodivino

About

77 minuscule works of art born in the Neapolitan spirit of Twentieth Century: the smallest sculptures in the world of Nativity and Dante’s Divine Comedy. The SAME collection has been discovered ten years ago and we are pleased to show to visitors from all around the world a new jewel of the Neapolitan art: these miniatures are so tiny that you will need a magnifying lens to see them! And they are so beautiful that even those who don’t love miniatures get captured. The author Antonio Maria Esposito (1917-2016) did not want to be known, and only after his death this splendid collection is getting the attention that it deserves. The smallest of these works is the sculpture of a Nativity in a seed of hemp of less then three millimeters ... You will also see dozen of characters living in a in a chestnut, in a pistachio, in a cherry pit - and then, you will travel through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven with Dante’s masterpiece of Italian Literature contained ... in a chestnut.

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 30 minutes