Da Artemisisa a Heckert – Show of the Royal Palace

From the 13 September 2019 al 13 January 2020 in the Sala Alabardieri, in the Hall of Bodyguards and Retrostanze eighteenth-century historians apartments, They will be exhibited works from the gallery owner Cesare Lampronti.

The exhibition comes from the idea of ​​bringing the world of private collectors and art galleries in the Museum, understood as places dedicated to fruition and cultural enhancement for "public" increasingly heterogeneous.
It aims to show the link between the works already present within the royal collection, exhibited in the halls of the Palace and the paintings in the Gallery Lampronti, as well as to enhance the charm of the painting of the '600 and' 700 as a whole. The exhibition will be on display for the first time in Caserta on Port Salerno Jakob Philipp Hackert, that is the "piece" missing from the series of Ports realized by Hackert for the king Ferdinand IV of Bourbon. The exhibition, then, thus becomes an opportunity to show visitors the full range of the United Ports, recently restored. The project involves providing additional paintings of views of Naples and Campania, made by painters present in the Palace collection.

The selected works are grouped into five different thematic areas: Caravaggio paintings; painting '600; views; landscapes and still lifes. The exhibition will be realized in the respect and in the promotion of such subdivision. Moreover, additional room will be dedicated to the project Images in Search of an Author, a real cross-section of paintings by unknown artists, whose assignment will be the subject of study and debate by scholars and researchers.

The exhibition will also be the occasion to emphasize the role that already for some time the Royal Palace of Caserta covers, in collaboration with universities and cultural institutes from Campania and with the network of Italian museums, of cultural diffusion and place dedicated to the study and research center.
The cultural purposes, as well as educational and scientific will then be promoted through the creation of day-study, which will involve experts from academia, with emphasis on issues such as: the art market; the link between private collectors and public bodies; Neapolitan painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Cesare Lampronti represents the third generation of a well-established family of antique dealers, boasting to his credit more than fifty years of experience in the international art market. The Lampronti Gallery was founded in Rome in 1914 by his grandfather Cesare, specialist in Italian paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular regard for the views, landscapes and still lifes, ranging, currently, from Caravaggio to Canaletto and their followers.