1. Museo di Capodimonte Naples, Italy
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2. Simone Martini
This is one of the oldest paintings (1317) in the gallery. Simone Martini was born in Siena and was a major painter in the development of early Italian painting.

3. Masaccio
Masaccio ( ) was the first great painter of the Quattrocento. He was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at recreating lifelike figures and movements.

4. Colantonio

5. Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna ( ) was a Renaissance painter of Northern Italy. He experimented with perspective. He took a sculptural approach to painting.

6. Botticelli
Botticelli ( ) was a major Early Renaissance of the Florentine school. Much progress had been made when comparing portraits of the baby Jesus below with the painting of Masaccio earlier in the 15C.

7. Giovanni Bellini

8. Pieter Bruegel the Elder

9. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
This is a detail of the painting on the last slide. Pieter Bruegel the Elder ( ) was a Flemish Renaissance painter. He is well-known for his landscape series, the Seasons of the year.

10. Albert Durer
Durer ( ) was a German painter, printmaker, mathematician, engraver and theorist from Nuremberg. His woodcut and engravings allow his works to reach a much larger audience.

11. Correggio
Correggio ( ) was an Italian Renaissance painter. He was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16C.

12. Raphael
Raphael ( ) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he was one of the great masters of the period. He is particular well-known for his Madonna and Child painting.

13. Parmigianino
Parmigianino ( ) was a prominent Italian Mannerist painter. His work is characterized by elongation of form.

14. Parmigianino
It is the best known portrait of Parmigianino. Antea was a lady of the court. The painting is also known as Parmigianino’s Innamorata (Lover). The young woman was dressed in fine clothing. This was painted at the height of Parmigianino’s career.

15. Parmigianino

16. Cranach the Elder

17. Titian
Titian was the most important of the 16C Venetian school. He is one of the most successful painter ever lived. He painted some of the most powerful people of his time.
Pope Paul III was a member of the House of Farnese, a powerful family in Renaissance Italy. The core collection of the museum once belong to his family.

18. Titian

19. Venusti
A copy of Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine chapel by Venusti, before some of the nudity was covered up with loin cloth and drapery.

20. El Greco
A rather unusual painting by the Spanish painter El Greco ( ).

21. Carracci

22. Lanfranco
The original painting came from the ceiling of on a room in the Farnese Palace. It has an impressive 17C view in the development of landscape painting.

23. Caravaggio
The painting was painted by Caravaggio ( ), one of the greatest painter of the Baroque age. It was completed in , about a year before Caravaggio’s death, age 39. Caravaggio died on his way to Naples.

24. Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi ( ), an Italian Early Baroque painter, was a follower of the Caravaggio’s style. She was the first female painter to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.
Caravaggio had a painting on the same subject but Gentileschi painting showed two women co-operated to kill Holofern. There is a similar painting by the same artist at Uffizi Gallery.

25. Panini

26. Gigante

27. Ginotti
This statue was purchased by King Vittorio Emanuele II, who was the first king of modern Italy.

28. Gemito
Vincenzo Gemito ( ) was an Italian sculptor and artist. Gemito was born in Naples to a poor woodcutter’s family. His mother left him on the steps of the orphanage after his birth.

29. Michetti
He was born in 1851 and died in Francesco Paolo Michetti was an Italian painter, draftsman, photographer, costume designer, modeller and scenographer.

30. Migliaro
Vincenzo Migliaro was a native Neapolitan artist.

31. The historical apartments of the palace

32. Porcelain bust by Tagliolini
The Royal Factory of Capodimonte date back to the early 18C. It is well-known for its white porcelain.
The Bust of Maria Carolina, the sister of Maria Antoinette was produced by the Royal Factory of Capodimonte.

33. The porcelain private room of the Palace of Portici was decorated by the Royal Factory of Capodimonte.
This represents the highest artistic expression of the royal factory. The porcelain decoration is fixed to a supporting wooden wall.

34. The End Historical notes on the following slides.
Music – Sad Romance composed by Thao Nguyen Xanh
Performed by Ji Pyeong Kyeon
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35. Kingdom of Sicily & Naples and the collection.
Modern Italy comes into existence after its unification in After the fall of the Roman Empire Italy was divided into smaller kingdoms and states.
Prior to the unification the largest and wealthiest state was the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which was formed of a union of the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples.
The historical and artistic cores of the collection of the museum came from the royal family of the kingdom.
In 1734, Charles III of Spain, who was also the King of Naples and Sicily inherited from his mother the Farnese Collection. The House of Farnese is an influential family in Renaissance Italy. Its most important members included Pope Paul III and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.

36. History of Capodimonte
The harbour of Naples with its impressive Castel Nuovo.
The Museum of Capodimonte is situated on the Capodimonte hill of Naples overlooking the Bay of Naples. The building is surrounded by a beautiful park.
Construction of the palace began in 1738, in the reign of king Charles of Bourbon. It was specially built to house the royal collection.
The building work was entrusted to Giovanni Antionio Meedrano, a military engineer.
The façade of the palace is austere in Doric style. The front façade is highlighted by a strong contrast between the strong fame work in grey ‘piperno’ (a kind of volcanic rock) and the typical deep red of Neapolitan plastered walls.
A view of the Capodimonte Museum

37. The End View of the Bay of Naples from Capodimonte Museum
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