then contemporary maniera mode. No city, except Rome, however, can offer the depth and continuity of artistic achievement in the seventeenth-century found in Naples; yet, for the most part, it is underestimated1. It is then the objective of this exhibition to shed light on the developments and achievements of the arts in Naples during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the seventeenth century, Naples was one of the great as well as most turbulent cities of the world and, with Paris, one…
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