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The last Caravaggio
After almost five hundred years of adventurous and tormented vicissitudes, the painting has arrived at a quiet and warm home, and has thus found again the city in which it was conceived and made.After a demanding work of restoration, the canvas by Merisi is now proposed to the public here, with the accompaniment of a rich illustrative apparatus and of a multi-media equipment.

The section of the vedutas
The exhibition site is further enriched by a body of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century vedutas of the city of Naples and of the countryside of Campania, by two Dutch artists, Gaspar van Wittel and Anton Smink Pittloo, among the most sensitive interpreters of the shift from the Enlightenment vedutismo to modern landscape painting.

The restoration of the halls
With the recent restoration, the halls of the palazzo have become again a lively synthesis of Neoclassical taste. The intervention has ablated the mortifying tempera paint, with its dull coldness and uniformity, and liberated the explosive originary colours: the Pompeiian red, the intense sky-blue, the gildings and the play with shadows.

A visit to the exhibition space
A virtual itinerary
A virtual walk through the halls of the palazzo, which reproduces the actual rooms that the visitor enters; one is accompanied by the frescoes and the stuccos by Giuseppe Cammarano, Gennaro Maldarelli and Gennaro Aveta, for a discovery of the works exhibited in the Gallery.

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© Intesa Sanpaolo 2007. All images of the site are taken from the Cultural Estate Archive of Banca Intesa.