It’s the grand exhibition of the Neapolitan winter. Six thematic displays in six museums. Museo di Capodimonte, Castel Sant’Elmo, Certosa e Museo di San Martino, Museo Duca di Martina, Museo Pignatelli, Palazzo Reale. The exhibition is entirely dedicated to the Baroque in Naples, and it can be divided into three periods: the arrival of Caravaggio in Naples in 1606, the presence of Luigi Vanvitelli and Ferdinando Fuga in the city (1750) and the departure of Charles of Bourbon for Spain (1759).
On display 350 works, most of which are new or recently restored, among which paintings, drawings, sculptures, furniture, jewels, fabrics, ceramics and chinaware. The project involves the entire city and region with 27 baroque itineraries, among churches, charterhouses, collegiate churches, palaces and regional museums.
from Saturday, 12 December 2009
to Sunday, 11 April 2010
Napoli
Via Miano 2,
Museo nazionale di Capodimonte
+39 848 800 288
+39 081 2294498
http://www.ritornoalbarocco.it
Opening hours: from Monday to Saturday from 9am to 6pm. Saturday from 9am to 2pm.
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.
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.
Il progetto consiste nell’esposizione, presso il Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, secondo nuovi criteri di una delle pi+ rlevanti, se non addiritura della più grande raccolta storica di statue antiche. La collezione di antichità, iniziata a metà del ‘500 da Alessandro Farnese, futuro Papa Paolo III, giunse in eredità a Carlo III di Borbone che divenne re di Napoli nel 1734. L’evento rientra nelle proposte cultrali del “Viaggio nella tradizione”, percorso promosso dall’Assessorato al Turismo e Beni Culturali della Regione Campania.
Also home to the 
Maggio dei Monumenti (May of Monuments) from 2 to 25 May 2008; Fri, Sat, and Sun only.
VitignoItalia was founded in 2005 for the need to create for the south central Italy an exhibition of reference strongly characterized and with an high profile.The choice of Italian native grape vine, as a requirement characterization in the “jungle” of oenological events, was successful: Attention from the critics, the media and consumers on the quality of Italian wine is increasingly evident.
