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Masterpieces from the Museo di Capodimonte on view at the Louvre

From June 7, 2023, the Louvre presents “Naples in Paris: the Louvre hosts the Museo di Capodimonte”, the result of a partnership of unprecedent scope with the Museo di Capodimonte

Source: Louvre Museum · Image: Titian, “Danae”. Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

The royal palace (reggia in Italian), which once served as a hunting lodge for Naples’ Bourbon monarchs, is now one of the largest museums in Italy, as well as one of the most important picture galleries in Europe in terms of both number and quality of works. Capodimonte is one of the few museums in Italy whose collection covers all schools of Italian painting. It also houses the second largest department of drawings (after the Uffizi) and a remarkable collection of porcelain.

Approximately sixty major masterpieces from Capodimonte will be exhibited in three different places in the Louvre. The glamorous Grande Galerie will host a spectacular encounter between two of the world’s most important collections of Italian painting; the Salle de la Chapelle, meanwhile, will focus on the origins and diversity of those parts of the Capodimonte collection largely assembled by the Farnese and Bourbon families. Finally, the Salle de l’Horloge will feature four masterpieces of drawing from the former Farnese collection – one autograph cartoon by Michelangelo, another by Raphael, and two others by assistants, all displayed opposite drawings by Raphael and his followers already in the Louvre.

Extending beyond the Louvre’s galleries, an ambitious programme of cultural events will lend this occasion the dimension of a veritable Neapolitan season in Paris.

The exhibition will run from 7 June 2023 to 8 January 2024 at the Denon wing, Salon Carré and Grande Galerie Sully wing, Salle de la Chapelle; and from 7 June to 25 September 2023 at the Sully wing, Salle de l’Horloge.

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