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Agostino Ferrari: Signs over time, Museum of the Twentieth Century

Agostino Ferrari. “At the end of 1962 I began to use the sign as nonsignificant writing… today there is still the awareness of reality, which I represent as I have always done, developing a theme with signs and forms. At the same time, there is everything I do not know…

Agostino Ferrari: Signs over time, Museum of the Twentieth Century

Room of Marino Marini, Museum of the Twentieth Century

Walking on the suspended footbridge that connects the Museum to Palazzo Reale, visitors access the final section focusing on the Sixties and the experiments of Kinetic and Programmed Art, beginning with the sculpture by Bruno Munari entitled “AconaBicombì”. The last halls exhibit artwork by the T Group and large format…

Room of Marino Marini, Museum of the Twentieth Century

Room of Umberto Boccioni, Museum of the Twentieth Century

On the first floor there are works from the Jucker collection and the futurists. Of particular interest, among the works of the futurist artist Boccioni (1882-1916), one of the various specimens of the famous sculpture Unique forms of continuity in space, exhibited in the room dedicated to the artist. The…

Room of Umberto Boccioni, Museum of the Twentieth Century

Capodimonte National Museum, Naples, Italy

The National Museum of Capodimonte is a museum in Naples, Italy, located inside the eponymous palace in the Capodimonte area, which houses several ancient art galleries, one of contemporary art and an apartment historical. It was officially opened as a museum in 1957, although the palace rooms have housed works…

Capodimonte National Museum, Naples, Italy

Farnese Gallery, Capodimonte National Museum

The Farnese collection gives its name to the gallery of the same name and all the works are sorted by area of origin in temporal sequence: the collection was started in the mid-sixteenth century by Pope Paul III, who collected it in his palace in Campo de ‘Fiori both ancient…

Farnese Gallery, Capodimonte National Museum

The French Halls, Capodimonte National Museum

Room 54 recalls the decade of French domination in Naples: paintings, furnishings with opaque and glossy gilding, busts and statues in both bronze and porcelain, as well as depicting the French sovereigns are of clear inspiration from beyond the Alps; the paintings include the Portrait of Gioacchino Murat and Napoleon…

The French Halls, Capodimonte National Museum

Royal Apartment, Capodimonte National Museum

The palace has a rectangular plan, with two buildings at the two ends slightly more protruding than the central one. It has a length of one hundred and seventy meters by eighty-seven on the shorter side and a height of thirty meters distributed on two floors plus an attic. The…

Royal Apartment, Capodimonte National Museum

Porcelain Gallery and De Ciccio Collection, Capodimonte National Museum

The treasures of the Porcelain Gallery in the Royal Apartments, where a selection of Neapolitan and European manufactured porcelain from the Bourbon collections is exhibited. The most famous piece of the section is the artifact in gilded and embossed silver, lapis lazuli, enamel and carved rock crystals. In rooms 35…

Porcelain Gallery and De Ciccio Collection, Capodimonte National Museum

Porcelain boudoir of Maria Amalia of Saxony, Capodimonte National Museum

The Porcelain boudoir of Maria Amalia of Saxony is a rococo interior now located in the Palace of Capodimonte in Naples. It was originally made for the Palace of Portici in 1757–59, but has now been moved to the Capodimonte Palace.It is named after Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of…

Porcelain boudoir of Maria Amalia of Saxony, Capodimonte National Museum

Farnese and Bourbon Armory, Capodimonte National Museum

In rooms 46, 47, 48, 49 and 50 the collections of the Farnesian and Bourbon Armory are exhibited: these are about four thousand pieces whose first set-up dates back to 1958 and of which they still retain their original appearance. Pieces of history and high craftsmanship, where many pieces with…

Farnese and Bourbon Armory, Capodimonte National Museum

Capodimonte park, Capodimonte National Museum

The Capodimonte park, formerly the Royal park of Capodimonte, is a city park in Naples, located in the Capodimonte area, in front of the homonymous palace. With its surface area of 330 acres, the Royal Park of Capodimonte is the largest public park in Naples. In 2014 it was voted…

Capodimonte park, Capodimonte National Museum

Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, Florence, Italy

The Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence, Italy is a fashion museum dedicated to the life and work of Italian shoe designer Salvatore Ferragamo and his eponymous company. The museum contains 10,000 models of shoes created and owned by Ferragamo from the 1920s until his death in 1960. Following Ferragamo’s death…

Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, Florence, Italy

The boundaries between art and fashion, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

The boundaries between art and fashion became less clear in the Eighties, when the forms of relationship between the two worlds grew on an International level. Art institutions opened their doors to designers, such as the Metropolitan A new category of exhibition curators and dedicated museums emerged. While art galleries…

The boundaries between art and fashion, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

Fashion is inspired by art, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

Art and fashion have faced each other, often looking at each other, even in the past. If the artists have been fascinated by clothing, as an essential tool to give realism to their representations, the tailor craftsmen have often drawn their inspirations from the world of art and assumed attitudes…

Fashion is inspired by art, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

The Ferragamo case, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

This first section of the exhibition is dedicated to Salvatore Ferragamo and his footwear, already judged in the 1930s as artifacts of artistic value, referring to a concept of art that focused attention on technical mastery as well as conceptual creativity. In his work, Ferragamo took the Renaissance artistic workshop…

The Ferragamo case, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

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