Capodimonte treasures will stay in Texas for a while longer: exhibition of controversy extended

Undoubtedly extended through July (although firm dates are not yet known) is the exhibition of controversy, the one that brought about forty works from the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The exhibition, titled Flesh and Blood. Italian Masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum, began last March 1, was closed for several weeks due to the coronavirus, and now, with the Kimbell’s reopening set for Saturday, June 20, is set to be extended: for sure, the Neapolitan works will remain in Texas through July (originally scheduled to close on June 14 instead). Exact dates have not yet been announced (at the moment there is talk of August 2 as the exhibition’s closing date). Confirmation came to us overnight from the Texas museum’s press office. The same office confirms that all works loaned by Capodimonte will remain in Fort Worth until the end of the exhibition.

The exhibition displays masterpieces strongly linked to Capodimonte’s identity: These include Caravaggio’s Flagellation, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and Holofernes, Parmigianino’sAntea, Titian’s Danae, Guido Reni’sAtalanta and Hippomenes, the Pieta by Annibale Carracci, José de Ribera’s Saint Jerome and the Drunken Silenus, and several works from the 17th-century Neapolitan school, from Battistello Caracciolo to Massimo Stanzione. Considering that the same exhibition, with few changes, had already been proposed from October 17, 2019 to January 26, 2020 in Seattle, the Capodimonte masterpieces, at the end of their American tour, will have made a good ten months away from Naples, thus ten months in which visitors to the Campania museum will not have been able to see its most famous works.

On the matter, Windows on Art had intervened with an editorial last February.

In the photo: Parmigianino, Antea, detail (c. 1530; oil on canvas, 135 x 88; Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte)

Capodimonte treasures will stay in Texas for a while longer: exhibition of controversy extended

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