Mattia Preti's Déposition du Christ, Luca Giordano's Scène d’auberge, Porpora's Nature morte aux poissons and forty masterpieces from Naples pour passion exhibition can be seen for the first time in France at the Magnin Museum in Dijon thanks to Sophie Harent, its director and Nadia Bastogi, scientific director of the De Vito Foundation, before spending the summer in Aix-en-Provence. A foundation created in 2011 by Giuseppe De Vito (1954-2015) with his wife in their villa in Olmo near Florence for his amazing collection of Neapolitan Seicento. Or the story of a Milanese engineer who became a collector, art historian and patron of the arts, captivated by the cultural and artistic abundance of Naples in the 17th century, an intense, tumultuous world-city, the most populous in Europe after Paris.

Extract from Pascale Lismonde's article published in the N°106 of the magazine Art Absolument. Publication date: 17 May 2023.

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