Campanica | Monitoring Italy's Campania region around Naples

A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE BUSTLING BAROQUE METROPOLIS At the dawn of the 17th century, the “Golden Age” of Naples, it was the second-largest city in Europe. It was the centre of the Italian art market, with dozens of foreign artists. French by birth, Didier Barra is a specialist of “veduta” or views – “portraits” of cityscapes, specializing in bird's-eye views, or “veduti in alzato”. (Such paintings are seldom fully realist, the painter having the obligation to depict clearly buildings and features that might be lost in a conventional aerial view.) Two Foreign Gentlemen from Naples | Chronicles Written by John Howe