Campanica | Monitoring Italy's Campania region around Naples

'OLTRE CARAVAGGIO' ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS OLD MASTER EXHIBITION Baroque Naples, the largest city in Europe after London and Paris, was devoted to visual excess. In his survey Neapolitan Baroque and Rococo Architecture, Anthony Blunt says that he counted more than two hundred churches. Two hundred works drawn entirely from the archives of Capodimonte are on public display indicates the daunting magnitude of the art historical task. Naples, a port city, attracted numerous artists from other Italian states and other European countries. Beyond Caravaggio: A New Account of Neapolitan Painting | The Brooklyn Rail