Estudio del pintor (Alegoría de las Bellas Artes). ca. 1635-1639. Author: Maestro del Anuncio a los pastores. Property: Colección Masaveu. © of the reproduction photography: María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation, 2013. Author of the photography: Marcos Morilla.
THE GOLDEN AGE OF PAINTING IN NAPLES
Organised by: The Fabre Museum with the collaboration of National Institute of Art History and the National Heritage Institute in Paris.
Curators: Michel Hilaire, Curator and Director of the Fabre Museum and Axel Hemery, Chief curator of Heritage and Director of the Musée des Augustins in Toolouse.
Art work Colección Masaveu loaned for exhibition: Estudio del pintor (Alegoría de las Bellas Artes). ca. 1635-1639. Author: Maestro del Anuncio a los pastores.
In the 17th century Naples was a major centre of European artistic activity, as well as being one of the continent’s most densely populated and vibrant cities.
From the arrival of Caravaggio in 1606 to the triumph of Solimena just before 1700, Neapolitan art combined an expressionist and tragic naturalism with a baroque and sensual taste for color and movement. From religious and mythological subjects to landscapes, battles and still lives, these paintings bear witness to the fertility and imagination of Neapolitan artists.
Discover the most important among them (Caracciolo, Ribera, Stanzione, Guarino, Cavallino, Giordano, Recco, Solimena, etc) in an exhibition that revisited the links between art and the city’s eventful history, from the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631 to the Plague of 1656 and the revolution led by Masaniello in 1647.
Through many French and foreign loans, the Fabre museum offered, in collaboration with the National Art History Institute and the National Heritage Institute in Paris, a vast panorama of one of the most brilliant periods in Italian art.
(Musée Fabre)
THE GOLDEN AGE OF PAINTING IN NAPLES
LA EDAD DE ORO DE LA PINTURA EN NÁPOLES
Museo Fabre
Montpellier, France
June 20, 2015 – October 11, 2015
