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\n*PHOTO CAPTION: Artemisia Gentileschi, \u201cJudith and Holofernes\u201d (ca.1612-17), oil on canvas, 159 x 126 cm; Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n
\u201cFlesh & Blood: Italian Masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum\u201d will open October 17, 2019 and run through January 26, 2020 at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) in Washington state before traveling to Fort Worth\u2019s Kimbell Art Museum in Texas from March 1, 2020 to June 14, 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis spectacular exhibit is also a testament to the strong cooperation between Italy and the United States and some of their greatest cultural institutions which tirelessly endeavored to renew the bonds of our deep cultural ties by bringing a unique glimpse of Italy to Seattle and Fort Worth,\u201d says Armando Varricchio, Ambassador of Italy to the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled for SAM to be the only West Coast venue for this powerful exhibition from the extraordinary Capodimonte Museum\u2014our first collaboration with the institution,\u201d says SAM\u2019s Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Chiyo Ishikawa. Eric M. Lee, director of the Kimbell Museum, says the exhibition\u2019s paintings \u201cembody innovation, exuberance and grandeur\u2013the result of revolutionary painting techniques and dramatic use of light and dark. The works continue to influence artists and inspire art lovers the world over.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFlesh & Blood\u201d is presented chronologically, tracing a 200-year period from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Highlights include Parmigianino\u2019s Antea (ca. 1535), El Greco\u2019s Boy Blowing on an Ember (1571-1572), Titian\u2019s Danae (1544-1545) and Artemisia Gentileschi\u2019s Judith and Holofernes (ca. 1612-1617), featured in \u201cWhen a Woman Wields a Weapon\u201d in the Wall Street Journal, August 16, 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe joy of Capodimonte,\u201d says the museum\u2019s director Sylvain Bellenger, \u201cis not only the breadth of the collection, but the quality. We have the best of Titian, Parmigianino, Annibale Carracci, not to mention Italian giants unknown to the general public like Schedoni and Preti. This exhibition brings many of these knock-out masterpieces to the United States for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE:<\/strong> ABOUT CAPODIMONTE MUSEUM: <\/strong> More information:\u00a0http:\/\/www.museocapodimonte.beniculturali.it\/<\/a><\/p>\n ABOUT AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CAPODIMONTE (AFC):<\/strong>
\nA 160-page illustrated softcover exhibition catalogue, produced in collaboration with the American Friends of Capodimonte Curatorial Fellows, will be available at the Seattle Art Museum and Kimbell Art Museum.<\/p>\n
\nReferred to as an \u201cunder-visited treasure trove\u201d by the New York Times in 2019 and \u201cthe most underrated museum in Italy\u201d by Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler in 2016, Capodimonte was built in 1738 by King Charles of Bourbon. It sits atop the highest hill above the ancient city of Naples, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The core of the collection is the Farnese collection of paintings and sculpture, formed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and inherited by Charles of Bourbon. This fall the museum opens a yearlong exhibition on the oldest opera house in Europe, Naples’ Teatro San Carlo. The exhibition, \u201cNapoli Napoli: Of Lava, Porcelain and Music,\u201d recounts the Bourbon monarchy’s patronage of the arts and sciences during Naples’ golden age.<\/p>\n
\nAmerican Friends of Capodimonte (AFC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization created to bring awareness about one of the world\u2019s greatest museums to an English-speaking audience. The AFC\u2019s Fellowship is the only U.S. program to offer young American art historians the experience of working in an Italian museum. AFC members receive exclusive access to Capodimonte Museum and Royal Park, U.S. events related to the museum\u2019s collection and priority on custom trips to Naples and beyond.<\/p>\n
![https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/19-0911s2p-judholof-300dpi.jpg<\/a>\n*Image caption: Artemisia Gentileschi, \u201cJudith and Holofernes\u201d (ca.1612-17), oil on canvas, 159 x 126 cm; Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 12, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — It is with great pleasure that the American Friends of Capodimonte (AFC) announce the first U.S. traveling exhibition of 40 Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces, most of which have never been viewed by an American audience, from the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, Italy; the royal palace built in 1738 by Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples and Sicily (later King Charles III of Spain).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7760,"featured_media":52074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,1,64,37,53,56,547],"tags":[11946,11948,11945,11947],"class_list":["post-52007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture-news","category-business-news","category-chicago-news","category-entertainment-news","category-illinois-news","category-non-profit-news","category-seattle-news","tag-capodimonte-museum","tag-kimbell-art-museum","tag-renaissance-art","tag-seattle-art-museum","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":6463,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/19-0911s2p-judholof-300dpi.jpg\"){kind=link}