An original exhibition cured by the Collezione Tirelli Costumi, which for the first time displays, in Caserta’s Royal Palace, an authentic dress of Marie Caroline, the same she wears in a 1789 painting by Filippo Marsigli, acting as background to the original. The twenty-two dresses in the scenic reconstruction of the exhibition by Flora Brancatella underline the creativity of the Bourbons, who, thanks to the Seterie di San Leucio, ruled the fashion world during the 18th and 19th centuries.
from Saturday, 28 November 2009
to Sunday, 10 January 2010
Caserta
Viale Giulio Douhet 2a
Reggia di Caserta
+39 0823 550011
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Three centuries of Russian history on display at Caserta’s Royal Palace. The Vanvitellian complex hosts 100 masterpieces, many of which exhibited for the first time. Jewels, costumes, weapons and churches and palaces decorations, connected with famous personalities and events of the Russian history linked with the Italian cultural tradition. The most ancient finds date back to Ivan III’s government in the 16th century and, among these, are fragments of white stone that used to embellish the portals of the Kremlin’s churches and palaces. The main core of the exhibition is made up by a group of Italian art works of the 16th and 17th century, arrived in Moscow thanks to the export trade and diplomatic relations between Italy and Russia, and by samples of Italian firearms, built by the masters of the famous Cominazo family in Brescia. In the end, an section dedicated to the portraits of the Tzar Aleksey Mikhailovch and Tzarine Natalya Kirillovna, picturesque views of the Kremlin and reproductions of the illuminations, drawn from the Book of the election of the Tzar Mikhail Fedorovich with images of the great princely palace and the Cathedral Plaza.
