Of Raphael, Titian, El Greco, Carracci, Caravaggio.
And more Ribera, Francesco Guarino, Mattia Preti, Leonello Spada… Thirty-three great masterpieces of Italian painting from the 15th to the 17th century will come to the Louvre.
In a year and for almost six months they will be shown in the Grande Galerie in dialogue with their counterparts already present.
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All are extraordinary loans, contracted from the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.
Which must close its main rooms for work.
In Paris, these portraits, these mythological, religious or genre scenes will dialogue with the house paintings in order to evoke the fabulous Farnesian gallery in Rome.
Where, originally, they constituted the jewels of the most sumptuous family collections, later enriched by the Bourbons.
Its history will also be explained in around thirty art objects in the Salle de la Chapelle.
This exceptional and exclusive collaboration perfectly illustrates the European and international momentum that I want for the Louvre.
Laurence des Cars, president and director of the Louvre
There, among other wonders, we will find the
Cofanetto Farnese
, the most precious and refined…
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