Gallery sights in Naples
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Accademia di Belle Arti
Buzzing with brush-clutching art students, this academy was once the convent of San Giovanni Battista delle Monache. Built in the 17th-century, it was given a thorough makeover in 1864 by architect Enrico Alvino, who gave the building a neoclassical facade, grand staircase, and two noble lions to guard the main entrance. The first-floor gallery houses an important collection of mainly 19th-century Neapolitan work.
Many of the artworks on display are by former academy alumni, including watercolourist Giacinti Gigante and sculptor Vincenzo Gemito. That so many of Gemito's busts were created in 1874 is not a coincidence - he frantically chipped away to pay his way out of mil…
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Pan (Palazzo delle Arti Napoli)
One of the city's two new hotbeds of contemporary art - the other being MADRE - PAN is the brainchild of European art curator and critic Lóránd Hegyi. Three slick white minimalist floors host innovative exhibitions, spanning everything from painting, photography and sculpture to multimedia, design and architecture. Housed in a pink 16th-century palace, PAN also boasts an experimental art lab, multimedia library, archive and slick cafe-bookshop.
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Pio Monte della Misericordia
The 17th-century Pio Monte della Misericordia is home to Caravaggio’s masterpiece Le sette opere di Misericordia (The Seven Acts of Mercy), considered by many to be the single most important painting in Naples.
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