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This is a list of marble sculptures in the collections of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and the National Museum of Capodimonte.

Most of the marble statues in the National Museum originally came from Rome, where they had been the properly of the Farnese family, whose large collection of statues was acquired from excavations, especially those of the year 1540, and was placed partly in the Palazzo Farnese, partly in the Farnese Garden on the Palatine. When the family died out in 1731, the possessions of Elizabeth Farnese, including the collection, passed into the hands of her son Charles, King of Naples, and the statues were removed to that town. Those that had ornamented the Villa were also added to the Museum. Others of the statues originate from excavations made at different times in Campanian towns, especially at Pompeii, Herculaneum, Capua, Pozzuoli, Gaeta and so on, while others come from Locri.

A small nucleus is formed by the Borgia collection which Giovanni Paolo Borgia had founded at Velletri in the 18th century and which chiefly contains objects from Oriental Greece, by the collection of the Duke of Noia, and that of Caroline Murat. One part of this collection was not taken to France, but remained in Naples under the name of the Museo Palatino. Other statues have been acquired by purchase.

The collection is placed on the ground floor. The entrance hall contains honorary statues. In the right wing the statues are arranged either from the chronological or from the topographical standpoint. In the left wing are the portrait statues.