At the Gallerie d'Italia – Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, the Neapolitan museum headquarters of Intesa Sanpaolo, Rubens, Van Dyck and Ribera will be on display until 7 April 2019. The exhibition is curated by Antonio Ernesto Denunzio with the presence of Gabriele Finaldi – director of the National Gallery in London – as consultant curator and with the collaboration of Giuseppe Porzio and Renato Ruotolo.
The exhibition brings back to Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano the prestigious collection that belonged, before being dispersed, to the Vandeneynden family who lived in the sumptuous residence of via Toledo from the last decades of the seventeenth century.
There are 36 works on display and many of these masterpieces are the result of loans from private collections and national and international museums of great prestige, such as: Galleria Sabauda (Turin), Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan), Musei Capitolini (Rome), Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte (Naples), Museo Correale di Terranova (Sorrento), National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh), Museo Nazionale del Prado (Madrid), Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge).
Some of the paintings in the exhibition have never been exhibited before in Italy such as Jan Miel's snack from the Prado, the two Jan Fyt from the Spanish collection (González de Castejón Silva), the works by Cornelis de Wael are also unpublished. Scena di porto , Herod with the head of the Baptist attributed to Orbetto, the Temptation of Adam and Eve by Vincenzo Gesualdo.
The 1688 inventory records over three hundred paintings, including examples by Francesco Albani, Paul Bril, Jan Brueghel, Caravaggio, Aniello Falcone, Luca Giordano, Jan Miel, Mattia Preti, Nicolas Poussin, Jusepe de' Ribera, Salvator Rosa, Pieter Paul Rubens, Massimo Stanzione, Andrea Vaccaro, Anton Van Dyck, numerous still lifes as well as landscapes and battles by other, mostly Flemish masters.
The initiative also makes use of a prestigious Scientific Committee which includes among others Christopher Brown, Keith Sciberras, Maria Cristina Terzaghi, Gert Jan van der Sman, Aidan Weston Lewis.
Michele Coppola, central director of art, culture and historical heritage of Intesa Sanpaolo, commented: "Promoting art and knowledge is the deep commitment of Intesa Sanpaolo's Progetto Cultura, and we make it concrete with original initiatives that allow you to rediscover the value and beauty of works, masters and seasons of the extraordinary Italian artistic history. The collection of a prince is full testimony to this, the result of research and loans in collaboration with important Italian museums and international institutions. The masterpieces on display celebrate the European flavor of late seventeenth-century art and collecting in Naples, confirming our Bank's strong link with the local area and the role of the Gallerie d'Italia as an increasingly significant cultural reference point for the city".
The exhibition, sponsored by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, is organized in partnership with the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte and in collaboration with the University of Naples "L'Orientale".
