European Days of Heritage - 29/30 september 2012

During the European Days of Heritage 2012, the Superintender of the museum Pole of Naples, Fabrizio Vona and the superintender Director of Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte, Massimo Della Valle, will have an original talk where Art and Science will join at close range.
The talk comes from a careful observation on the artworks of Capodimonte Museum that presents astronomical references and of precious scientifics volumes and antiques instruments kept in the Observatory.
Among the artworks of Capodimonte, for example, on the medal that Galeazzo Sanvitale -painted by Parmigianino- keeps in the right hand, it's carved the n° 72 that on the Cabala it's the symbol of aligining of the stars between the Sun and the Moon; in the Scene of sacrifice, pictured by Pontormo, majority of critics believes that is represented a sacrifice to the God of Sun; on the paintings, the insxcription TIBI. SOLI. DEO.S.O. was interpreted as "A te Dio Sole".
It's about a brilliant way completed by scientific- cultural divagations, seraching for increasingly new references between Art and Astronomy that will end with the observation of the sky through telescopes of Astronimical Observatory of Capodimonte.
Astronomy was, for centuries, considered" the science" par excellence, searching for answers to the human's misteries through the study of cosmos. Artworks have kept and passed on us several tracks of coeval astronomical conceptions, discovered during this special occasion.

The Superintendent for the museum Pole of Naples, Fabrizio Vona presents the catalogue of monographical exhibition dedicated to the drawings of Giovanni Lanfranco (Parma 1582 - Roma 1647), exhibited to the Museum of Capodimonte , at the second floor: sixty masterpieces selected by corpus lanfranchiano composed by 476 drawings, kept in the Gabinetto and Stamps of Capodimonte.
The exhibition runs by the whole career of the emilian painter: from the studies for the paintings more antiques, to the airy romans inventions for Sant' Andrea della Valle and the Casino Borghese untill the great cycles of wall paintings of the neapolitan decade such as the Dome of Gesù Nuovo and Chapel of Treasure of San Gennaro and the Churches Certosa of San Martino and of SS. Apostoli.
In the refined subjects on the painting and wall painting, made between Naples and Rome, during the the first fifty years of seventeenth century, Giovanni Lanfranco opened the way to the decorators of following generations as Pietro da Cortona and  Luca Giordano. The emilian Magister, one of the more prolific painters of his time, worked on extended pictorial surfaces, thanks to an effective method of work based on the drawing that reduced at minimum the interventation of collaborators.

Marcello Orilia was an aristocratic viveur, hunting lover, moving in fashionable neapolitan circles, between the two World War: a man refined, polished, witty and bright; discendant from an ancient and noble lineage of Cava dei Tirreni and later moved to Naples to the Pallace Arlotta in Chiatamone, made up a small museum attended by friends and collector, with his wife Maria Teresa de Vito Piscitelli.
In the occasion of European Days of Heritage, in the 'events room' of the Certosa - as the room reserved to collection it's closed for fitting works -  where it's exposed a significant selection of this cultured and refined collection.
 Marcello Orilia, inspired by the modern taste of collector, enhanced his collection with majolicas and porcelains of european manifactures as Meissen, Chelsea, Sèvres or italian as Ginori di Doccia, Capodimonte and Real Fabbrica of Naples, even with elegant fans, refined sticks and important woden parietal covers. After his death, his personal collection was given to the Museum of San martino and exposed in 1955.  

Once again there will be the appointment at the Certosa and Museum of san Martino to enjoy the delicious biological grapes of the old stumps of cornicella and catalanesca.
The grape harvest will have place in the gardens, going thru the vineyard way, plant with ancient and religious - historical significants and symbol of abundance and of regenerative strenght.  Vegetable gradens and panoramic gardens of Certosa of san Martino, surrounded the whole complex. The area was surrounde by flower beds, and a garden wall of vegetagles that let us joing the view of the city. So the Sant'Elmo Hill rappresented the so-called "garden of agriculture": an hybrid between vegetable gardens, citrus fruits, vines, olive trees, ornamnental plants.

In occasion of the European Days of Heritage 2012, the Superintender join the second edition of the initiative dedicated to the contemporary art 'Door to Door', sponsored by Soprintender for Historic Amenities, Artistic and Ethno-anthropologicals of Salerno and Avellino and Castel Sant'Elmo where it's exposed the Anastatica sensibile.
This work it's created by the young artist Daniela Di Maro: she was born in Naples and lives and work in Milan: she won the first competion edition of "Un'opera per il Castello 2011".

Sant' Elmo, was made up by the spanish Pedro Luis Escrivá in the first half of XVI century.
Tour arranged by the Italian Institute of Castles.
Obligatory Booking.  Info: 333 6853918 - castellicampania@virgilio.it

Villa Pignatelli it's one of the rare example of house-museum in Napoli. In 1955 the princess Rosina Pignatelli gave to the State the Mansion House, situated in Riviera di Chiaia, surrounded by huge park full of buildings, was founded the Museum dedicated to Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes. Fornitures of Mansion House testify a particulare taste for collector of applied arts, silvers of eighteen centrury and bronze objects (candelabras and watches of french manifactures) and the Narciso designed by Cincenzo Gemito. This collection ti's composed by refined collections and different european manifactures ceramic, vases and cups of old chinese and japanese production. Visit by the assistants of museum.

Lectures by Maria Teresa Sarpi, technical executive Ministry of Education, University and Research Giancarlo Alfano, professor of Italian Litterature at Second University of Studies of Naples. In occasion of the Europeen Days of Heritage, the Museum of Ceramic Duca di Martina, opens a cycle of conversations dedicated to the classical myth of Arcadia during the the modern era; meeting will last, monthly, untill the end of may 2013.
The persistance of classical myth of Arcadia during the modern era in Europe, as place of inner and as cultural ideal of european aristocracy between the XVI and XVII century, shows itself as a crossroads of poetry, narrative, theater, pictorial productions and music opera. The costant decanting of the same materia according to different fields, produced a density of homogeneus tunes and so a common immaginary: from woody landscapes to the porcelains of Meissen, Capodimonte and Sèvres, unitll going to the mass communication world, to the small sheeps appeared during the advertisement of RAI.
Following a tour by the museum direction.

29th september 2012 from 9.00am to 7.00pm and 30th september 2012 from 9.00am to 2.00pm

Armeria 11th september to 11th october