Returns to Naples, but not in its museum turned construction site for restyling works. 'The Flagellation' by Caravaggio has been appearing in other places of art for months: from February 28, the painting, in the Capodimonte collections, is expected to be exhibited in the diocesan museum. For the fourth traveling exhibition. Like a superstar.
The masterpiece has been missing from the city since last May 9, from the fleeting appearance in 'Dialogues around Caravaggio', an initiative organized at the Royal Palace: after the loan of the work to Ruen, before it flew to the Louvre for the 'double trip' across the Channel, along with 70 canvases that have enchanted Paris. 'Culture is opening, not closing: it can continue to have visibility in this way, networking', the philosophy of the former director of the Capodimonte museum, Sylvain Bellenger, evidently shared by Eike Schmidt who took over the management, learning of the appointment during a visit to another sacred space: the museum of the treasure of San Gennaro. Waiting for him to decide whether to stay or run with the center-right as mayor in Florence, the inauguration at Donnaregina Nuova could be his first official presentation.