Art is divine

When Napoli rhymes with Paris

by Alessandra Cenna

MUSEE DU LOUVRE

Paris

Until January 8  2024 

www.louvre.fr 

 

“Naples in Paris.

The Louvre invites the Capodimonte Museum »

Titien, “Danaé « 1544-1545 - Huile sur toile - 120 x 172 cm - Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte 

Per gentile concessione del MIC Ministero della Cultura, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte 

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Francesco Mazzola, dit Il Parmigianino,» Portrait de jeune femme» , dit aussi Antea. Vers 1535 

- Huile sur toile- 138 x 36 cm - Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte 

© Luciano Romano 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following its redevelopment work, the Real Bosco Museum of Capodimonte invites itself to the Louvre for six months, establishing an unprecedented partnership between the Neapolitan institution and France. Remarkably, the exhibition is not dedicated to an artist, a movement or a country but to a museum.

Former hunting residence of the Bourbon rulers, the Palace, or Reggia in Italian, built on the hills and surrounded by a vast park, has one of the largest and richest collections on the peninsula as well as one of the most important art galleries in Europe. 

Leonello Spada, «Cain et Abel.» 1612-1614 - Huile sur toile-178,5 x 118 cm - 

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte 

Per gentile concessione del MIC Ministero della Cultura, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte 


Guido Reni «Atalante et Hyppomène «. Vers 1615-1618 - Huile sur toile- 192 x 264 cm - Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte © Luciano Romano 

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, dit Caravage, «La Flagellation”- 1607 - 

Huile sur toile- 286 x 213 cm - Naples, propriété du Fondo Edifici di Culto, 

Ministero dell’Interno, en dépôt au Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte  © Luciano Romano 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just like the Louvre, this former royal palace transformed into a museum, hosts within its walls Italian paintings from the 15th to the 17th century. It was in 1957 that the Capodimonte was restored and became a National Museum.
Before the reunification of Italy, three dynasties contributed to the wealth of the Museum of Naples, the Farnese, the Bourbon and the Bonaparte-Murat.
The salt cellar of François Ier made by the great goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini and “The Fall of the Giants” in biscuit cascade imagined by Filippo Taglionini are among these admirable works.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

60 paintings have traveled from Naples to represent with panache the different currents of Italian art with Venetian, Parmesan, Florentine, Roman and of course Neapolitan works. All the works have been loaned according to their dialogue with the Italian collection of the Louvre Museum.

Caravaggio, Titian, Michelangelo or Raphael, the big names fill the walls with their talents that cross centuries and borders to unite in a vast epic fresco, an admirable first in the history of exhibitions.

Artemisia Gentileschi «Judith décapitant Holopherne». 

Vers 1612- 1613 - Huile sur toile -158,8 x 125,5 cm - Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte 

Per gentile concessione del MIC Ministero della Cultura, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte 


Per gentile concessione del MIC Ministero della Cultura, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte