The collection comes home: works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Ribera and many others on display at the Gallerie d'Italia in Naples

Opening on December 6, 2018 at Gallerie d’Italia - Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano in Naples is the exhibition Rubens, Van Dyck, Ribera. The Collection of a Prince, which can be visited until April 7, 2019. For the occasion, the prestigious collection dispersed by the Vandeneynden family and later belonging to the princes Colonna di Stigliano, who from the last decades of the seventeenth century lived in the residence on Via Toledo, will return to the Neapolitan venue. Masterpieces that were once kept here and are now conserved in Italian and foreign museums will be on display. This is anunprecedented exhibition born of long studies and in-depth investigations that allowed wonderful works to return home.

The Vandeneynden family was very close, even by kinship, to various Flemish artists, and this favored the formation of the collection to which coeval Italian and Flemish works belonged: such intertwined relationships also led to names such as Rubens and Van Dyck.

Among the masterpieces are Rubens ’ Banquet of Herod and paintings by van Dyck, Luca Giordano, Mattia Preti, Jusepe de Ribera, Salvator Rosa, Guercino, Annibale Carracci, Jan Brueghel, Jan Miel, as well as numerous still lifes, landscapes and battles by other Flemish masters.

The exhibition is curated by Antonio Ernesto Denunzio with the collaboration of Giuseppe Porzio and Renato Ruotolo; consultant curator is Gabriele Finaldi, director of the National Gallery in London. It is also organized by Intesa Sanpaolo and has a prestigious scientific committee.

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Hours: Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Mondays. Open until 8 p.m. on Dec. 8, Dec. 26 to Jan. 5 (excluding Dec. 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Dec. 31 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.).

Tickets: Full 5 euros, reduced 3 euros

Image: Peter Paul Rubens, Herod’s Banquet (c. 1635-1638; oil on canvas, 208 x 272 cm; Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland)

The collection comes home: works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Ribera and many others on display at the Gallerie d'Italia in Naples

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