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| The last Caravaggio |
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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.
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section of the vedutas |
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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. |
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| The restoration of the halls |
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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. |
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