iState Collections of Antiquities · Kunstareal, Maxvorstadt
Collecting with Style: Caroline Murat, Ludwig I and Antiquity
Marking 200 years since Ludwig I bought Caroline Murat's antiquities, this show reunites her "Lipona" collection for the first time, recreating an early-19th-century collector's cabinet.
You walk in between two white marble busts: Caroline Murat as Queen of Naples, after Canova and lent by Versailles, and Ludwig I as crown prince, by Thorvaldsen. She built this collection and he bought it. In June 1826, crates holding 447 ancient works reached Munich from her exile.
Napoleon's youngest sister ran her own digs at Pompeii while she ruled Naples, then fled as Countess Lipona, an anagram of Napoli, and had to sell. The show puts her collection on view almost complete for the first time: Greek vases, gold, bronzes, and a Pompeian silver hoard its 1813 excavator said an Isis priest dropped while fleeing Vesuvius. Ludwig's negotiator Klenze got interest-free instalments and made the seller pay for shipping, a deal any Kleinanzeigen veteran will respect.
One installation restages the 1840s vase display Klenze designed for the Alte Pinakothek, lost to wartime bombing. It's all on the normal ticket: €6, €4 reduced, €1 on Sundays, free under 18, open until 8pm on Wednesdays.
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The two busts at the entrance
Look for Caroline Murat in white marble, after Canova and lent by Versailles, standing beside Thorvaldsen's crown prince Ludwig: the seller and the buyer, side by side.
The Egyptian situla
A silver bucket engraved with an Egyptian offering scene, lent by Munich's Egyptian Museum, and the best clue tying the Pompeii silver to the Temple of Isis.
The centaur jug
A silver jug from the Lipona hoard with relief scenes of centaurs fighting Lapiths, shown alongside a bowl whose handle is a woman's head.
The Herculaneum fresco
A wall painting of a woman playing the flute and a dancer with cymbals, from the town buried with Pompeii in AD 79.
Oedipus and the Sphinx
A red-figure Greek amphora painted with Oedipus facing the Sphinx, one of the vases that formed the core of Caroline's collection.
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Under-18s get in free.
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- Collecting with Style: Caroline Murat, Ludwig I and AntiquityCourtesy of State Collections of Antiquities
- Shifting the Silence© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
- Beyond the World. The Blue RiderCourtesy of Lenbachhaus
- What May Vanish Becomes Image. Regarding Nature and ArtCourtesy of Lenbachhaus
- State Collections of AntiquitiesDiego Delso, delso.photo, CC BY-SA 4.0
- GlyptothekDaderot, 公有領域
- Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National SocialismRaimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0
- LenbachhausBurkhard Mücke / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- State Museum of Egyptian ArtFred Romero / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0