The exhibition From Artemisia to Hackert. History of an Antiquarian Collector at the Reggia aims to bring the world of private collecting and art galleries closer to that of museums, emphasizing the link between the works already in the royal collection and the Lampronti Gallery paintings, and thus enhancing the appeal of seventeenth and eighteenthcentury painting.
On the occasion of this review, Jakob Philipp Hackert's Port of Salerno, a missing "piece" from the series of Ports created by Hackert for King Ferdinand IV of Bourbon, will be exhibited for the first time in Caserta. An opportunity, therefore, to show visitors the entire series of the Ports of the Kingdom, recently restored. The project includes the exhibition of additional paintings of views of Naples and Campania by painters in the Reggia's collection.
The chosen works refer to five different themes: Caravaggesque paintings, seventeenth-century painting, views, landscapes and still lifes. In addition, one room will be dedicated to the project Immagini in cerca di autore, a section of paintings by unknown authors, whose attribution will be the subject of study and debate by scholars and researchers.