The relationship between art and justice in an exhibition at the Royal Palace of Naples

Justice and Art are featured in an exhibition in Naples from December 12, 2019 to January 28, 2020. Entitled The Art of Justice, Justice in Art and held at the Royal Palace of Naples, the exhibition aims to tell the theme of Justice and its many meanings through art with works and interpretations of different historical moments.

An exhibition supported and realized by the CAMPANIA REGION through SCABEC, conceived and promoted by the European Center for Tourism and Culture in Rome, in collaboration with the Polo Museale della Campania, under the direction of Dr. Anna Imponente, and scientifically curated by Giulia Silvia Ghia.

Visible in the Salone d’Ercole of the Royal Palace, the exhibition explores in seventeen works the change of the figure of Justice in its artistic representations and its evolution. The exhibition consists of three sections: the first is dedicated to the symbolism of Justice and aims to shed light on the birth of its iconography, starting with a mid-seventeenth-century copy of Cesare Ripa ’s Iconography and arriving at works such as Cesare Gennari’sAllegory of Justice from the National Galleries of Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Corsini. In the second section where a number of paintings (such as Anton Maria Viani’sArchangel Michael , Guercino ’s Return of the Prodigal Son or Bartolomeo Schedoni’s The Pharisee’s Coin ) that narrate well-known biblical episodes and chosen as examples of divine and human Justice find their place.

The last section of the exhibition is dedicated to Myth beyond Justice: a selection of figures who through the trials they underwent reached the dimension of myth. This section features four volumes from theHistorical Archives of Rome that tell of the trials of Giordano Bruno, Beatrice Cenci and Caravaggio. The latter volume exceptionally comes out of the Archives for the third time, having been lent only to the exhibition organized by Roberto Longhi on Caravaggio, in Milan in 1951, and again to the exhibition also on Merisi held in Tokyo in 2016.

A catalog edited by Giulia Silvia Ghia with texts by Vito de Nicola, Gianfranco Passalacqua, Adriano Prosperi, and Elena Tassi will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.

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Source: press release

The relationship between art and justice in an exhibition at the Royal Palace of Naples

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