The Petit Palais is presenting a real exhibition on the history of art, where visitors will discover to their surprise how Luca Giordano avoids every kind of label.
"Madonna of the Rosary, or with a baldaquin", 1680, oil on canvas, 430 x 240 cm, Naples, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte.
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"At a time when Old Master painting seems to be an increasingly distant territory," say curators Sylvain Bellenger and Christophe Leribault, "it is important to remember how modern all great artists were in their time." For the director of the Capodimonte Museum and his opposite number at the Petit Palais, it was essential to "convey the painter's astonishing versatility when confronting and being fired by rivalry with his contemporaries and masters of the past. This might disconcert the modern eye, which likes to…
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