New layout for the De Nittis Art Gallery in Barletta.

Starting Sept. 26, 2020, the De Nittis Art Gallery in Barletta will be dressed in a new display.

“It will be an unprecedented De Nittis,” said Barletta Mayor Cosimo Damiano Cannito, “the one we will discover in the new exhibit that Professor Renato Miracco has curated for the picture gallery housed in Palazzo Della Marra. The prestigious and authoritative art expert, who has always been a lover of De Nittis’ work, was enchanted by it when he visited Barletta in February last year and then wanted to transform his admiration into a reinterpretation of the artist and his work, in a temporal dialogue between the present and the end of the 19th century, in the master’s favorite places, Paris and London. ”I think that for our Giuseppe De Nittis and his works,“ the mayor concluded, ”a new era is about to begin, one already indicated in the will of Léontine Lucille Gruvelle, with which she donated to Barletta City Hall all the paintings, engravings and studies of her beloved husband, asking that they be distributed in the museums of Italy and even abroad, for the better glory of their compatriot....

A generous bequest that also constitutes a commitment for the city to fulfill: that of making De Nittis’s works known to the world in order to give them due glory.

It was Léontine Gruvelle, widow of Giuseppe De Nittis (Barletta, 1846 - Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1884), who donated in 1913 to the artist’s hometown, in a holographic will, a significant nucleus of works tracing the various stages of De Nittis’ artistic production.

The new exhibit, entitled Rileggere De Nittis, curated by Renato Miracco, aims to highlight the painter’s artistic context in the late 19th century in Paris and London. “Dividing the paintings of the donation into sections,” commented the curator, "telling the stories and anecdotes that emerge from the works on display, rereading and rediscovering the artist today has been my task, ensuring a layered reading suitable for not only a national but an international audience. Moreover, in some sections of the exhibition, some of De Nittis’ paintings will be compared with those of some of his artist-friends, notably Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte and James Tissot. To top it off, and to give the visitor a broader view of his production, the itinerary will include reproductions of some of De Nittis’s paintings present today in the world’s most important collections and museums: from the International Gallery of Modern Art in Venice to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to the Piceni Collection in Milan, to name but a few."

In the seventeen rooms of Palazzo della Marra, a doubly identity, didactic and emotional narrative will thus be walked through (the colors that De Nittis used in his paintings were chosen for the rooms). The artist is internationally recognized as one of the leading figures in the renewal of the arts in Italy and Europe at the end of the 19th century.

New layout for the De Nittis Art Gallery in Barletta.

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