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From 27 March to 27 September, the Fortino Pietro Leopoldo I in Forte dei Marmi hosts the exhibition Pittura a Napoli dopo Caravaggio, a significant selection of paintings by the main protagonists of 17th-century Neapolitan painting.
The exhibition retraces the artistic evolution that began after the presence of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, in Naples, showing the transition from Caravaggesque naturalism to subsequent interpretations with a Classicist and Baroque orientation.
The exhibition project presents to the public the collection gathered by the collector and scholar Giuseppe De Vito (1924–2015), now held at the Giuseppe and Margaret De Vito Foundation for the History of Modern Art in Naples, based in Vaglia (Florence).
On display are works by artists such as Battistello Caracciolo, Jusepe de Ribera, Massimo Stanzione, Aniello Falcone, Bernardo Cavallino, Mattia Preti and Luca Giordano, as well as an important group of still lifes by painters such as Luca Forte, Paolo Porpora and Giuseppe Recco.
The exhibition also engages with the Caravaggesque tradition present in the Lucca area, represented by artists such as Pietro Paolini and Simone del Tintore.
The exhibition is curated by art historian Nadia Bastogi, scientific director of the Foundation. The layout is curated by the architect Marco Francesconi.
For more details, please visit the official website.
