At the Archaeological Museum of Naples a major exhibition on the Byzantines. The Vanella Garden will also reopen

From December 7, 2022 to February 13, 2023, the MANN-National Archaeological Museum in Naples will host a major exhibition on the Byzantines, strongly supported by the Campania Region. In the wake of the exhibition dedicated to the Lombards, the exhibition Byzantines. Places, Symbols and Communities of a Thousand-Year Empire, which will be set up in the Salone della Meridiana, aims to develop the theme of the historical phases following the Western Roman Empire with a special focus on Greece, Naples (a Byzantine city for about five centuries after its conquest by the armies led by Belisarius in 536 AD) and southern Italy. Curated by Federico Marazzi of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, the exhibition will tell the story of the Byzantine millennium by delving into various themes, such as the structure of power and state, urban and rural settlement, cultural exchanges, religiosity and expressions of written, literary and administrative culture.

About five hundred artif acts on loan from the main museums and archaeological sites that hold Byzantine materials in Italy and Greece will be on display: thanks in part to collaboration with the Greek Ministry of Culture, many artifacts will be on view for the first time and come from excavations on the metro line in Naples and Thessaloniki. The scientific project of the exhibition was developed by a group of Italian scholars of Byzantine civilization, a group coordinated by Federico Marazzi himself and composed of Lucia Arcifa, Ermanno Arslan, Isabella Baldini, Salvatore Cosentino, Edoardo Crisci, Alessandra Guiglia, Marilena Maniaci, Rossana Martorelli, Andrea Paribeni and Enrico Zanini. Coordinated by Laura Forte and organized by Villaggio Globale International, the exhibition is produced with the support of the Campania Region and in collaboration with theSuor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. The exhibition design is by Andrea Mandara and the graphic design by Francesca Pavese. Finally, the exhibition includes a rich editorial apparatus, including a catalog, a short guide, a publication on Byzantine itineraries in Campania and a children’s volume.

From December 19, on the other hand, the MANN’s Giardino della Vanella will reopen, presented to the public according to a harmonization perspective with the works for the reorganization of the so-called Braccio Nuovo. Going beyond the nineteenth-century layout criteria, the third green heart of the Museum takes on a different appearance: the development of the Garden follows a main axis, at the center of which is the fish pond commissioned by Amedeo Maiuri in 1932; from here, smaller secondary avenues branch off, leading toward the building of the Braccio Nuovo, where Auditorium, teaching area and restoration laboratories are now housed. The areas that arise from this interweaving of lines are free spaces, treated with lawn or with shrubs and blooms. The central part of the garden is completely paved so as to allow greater freedom of access. Looking forward, in parallel with the renovation of the Atrium, the Vanella Garden will also be designed as a free-access space for the citizenry. The Vanella Garden renovation project is being overseen by architect and landscape architect Silvia Neri.

Another “Christmas” novelty will be the new display in the halls of the Villa dei Papiri, starting Dec. 7, of the Museum’s nativity scene. The display is signed by theNeapolitan Nativity Association and is dedicated to the figure of Charles III of Bourbon. For this year, the Museum is hosting, starting Dec. 1, a multimedia tour that, starting from the reconstruction of a night at the court of Charles III of Bourbon, presents, also with the aid of new technologies, the main characters and the characteristic sets of the nativity scene. The setting is curated by Fabrizia Fiore and the multimedia content is created by Marco Capasso - creative studio.

At the Archaeological Museum of Naples a major exhibition on the Byzantines. The Vanella Garden will also reopen

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