On the Battles of Camillo d'Errico, a nineteenth-century Lucanian collector

On the occasion of the bicentennial celebrations of the birth of Camillo d ’Errico (1821-2021), the Camillo d’Errico Picture Gallery and Library in Palazzo San Gervasio (Potenza) presents until June 30, 2022 the exhibition Sogna il guerrier le schiere. For the Battles of Camillo d’Errico, curated by Mauro Vincenzo Fontana and Annamaria Mauro.

It is an anthological review of the Battles that belonged to Camillo d’Errico within the substantial collection that included 298 paintings, 500 prints, 9 porcelain plates, 12 small glass paintings with figures, and 4290 antique volumes. The title refers to a famous passage from Pietro Metastasio’sArtaxerxes, a great classic of 18th-century theater that the collector owned and read through a 19th-century illustrated edition. The exhibition does not pretend to be a comprehensive account of the subject, but aims to share the first materials collected in the field of research, at the initial stage. In fact, it is the first organic in-depth study of the Battles owned by Camillo, addressing specialists and the general public with a never-before-seen itinerary among some of the lesser-known paintings in the Lucanian picture gallery. It is also an opportunity to reflect on one of the genres most prized by Western collectors, both ancient and modern.

Beginning with two small-format paintings by Carlo Coppola and a Battle between Turks and Christians attributed to Giuseppe Piscopo, the exhibition aims to cover just over a century, from about 1635 to 1760-1765, through the display of twenty-three works from this thematic field; these include two canvases juxtaposed with Marzio Masturzo’s Joshua Stops the Sun attributed to Francesco Graziani and Francesco Solimena’sHorace Coclite.

The review is promoted by the Board of Directors of the Ente Morale with the collaboration of the National Museum of Matera.

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On the Battles of Camillo d'Errico, a nineteenth-century Lucanian collector

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