1600 and Environs. A turning point in the arts between Rome and Naples

CYCLE: The arts around the Holy Years.
SPEAKER: Giuseppe Porzio
DATE: Thursday, Sept. 18, 6 p.m.

The Jubilee of 1600 constitutes the point of arrival of the intense motion of cultural rethinking imprinted by the Counter-Reformation, with highly relevant outcomes - if only from a quantitative point of view - on artistic production in its various aspects; an increase that provoked in painting, on the one hand, the innovations and stylistic revolutions of Annibale Carracci and Michelangelo da Caravaggio, and on the other, the revitalization of the various tendencies of the sixteenth-century manner. If, with its attractiveness, Rome was naturally the propelling center of this process, the role of Naples at the same time is less well known. The conference therefore intends to focus on the circulation of artists and figurative exchanges between the two cities during this extraordinary conjuncture.

Giuseppe Porzio teaches History of Modern Art at the University of Naples L'Orientale, where he coordinates the master's degree program in Humanistic Knowledge and Digital Technologies. His scholarly activity has focused on painting between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries in central-southern Italy, with particular emphasis on naturalistic currents and foreign presences. Major works include monographs on La scuola di Ribera (2014) and Carlo Sellitto (2019) and the curatorship of the exhibition on Artemisia Gentileschi in Naples (Gallerie d'Italia, Naples, 2022-2023, with Antonio Ernesto Denunzio). He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Royal Palace of Naples.

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