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Raphael also returns to Capodimonte with the Spaniards

2023-03-12T09:53:36.219Z


The great exhibition with the Prado on the Southern Renaissance (ANSA) NAPLES - For the first time, after 400 years, Raphael's Madonna of the Fish returns to Naples, the painting which was a point of reference for the artists of the "Southern Renaissance" and which was transferred by the Spanish rulers and to Madrid around the middle of the seventeenth century . An opportunity to review the work, located in its "territory" of origin, is the exhibition "The Spaniards


NAPLES - For the first time, after 400 years, Raphael's Madonna of the Fish returns to Naples, the painting which was a point of reference for the artists of the "Southern Renaissance" and which was transferred by the Spanish rulers and to Madrid around the middle of the seventeenth century .

An opportunity to review the work, located in its "territory" of origin, is the exhibition "The Spaniards in Naples. The Southern Renaissance" which will be inaugurated on Monday at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte thanks to the project carried out in partnership with the museum of Prado.

On the bill until 25 June, the exhibition project curated by Riccardo Naldi, professor of modern art history at the L'Orientale University of Naples and by Andrea Zezza, professor of modern art history at the University of Campania "

on the contrary, it contributed to the definition of a new role of transmission belt of Renaissance culture between the two shores of the Mediterranean.

A happy season of cultural exchange of which the exhibition highlights the very high quality of the works and their cosmopolitan character, focusing on the very close connection between painting and sculpture.

In fact, the confrontation between the so-called "sister arts" found particularly fertile ground in Naples and the exhibition offers a wide selection of them, proposing the major protagonists, from the painters Andrea da Salerno and Marco Cardisco, to the sculptors Giovanni da Nola and Girolamo Santacroce.

If at the Prado, in the exhibition Otro Renacimiento, the inspiration was concentrated on the forms and volumes of Neapolitan architecture, in Capodimonte, however,

the focus is precisely in the dialogue between the pictorial and sculptural works.

But the main difference between the exhibition in Naples compared to that in Madrid is the strong link with the territory: many of the works by the artists of the period are present in the city churches (thanks to an agreement with the Municipality of Naples it will be possible to visit the Spanish in some churches of the city), in particular San Giovanni a Carbonara, San Domenico Maggiore, Santi Severino and Sossio and San Giacomo degli Spagnoli.

And it is precisely in the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore that the strongest link between the exhibition and the city is perceived: the Madonna of the Fish by Raphael, exhibited in the Sala Causa at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, was in fact created for the Chapel of the the Doce (or Santa Rosa) family right in San Domenico Maggiore.

Source: ansa

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