The story of seventeenth-century Naples, then a viceroyalty of the Spanish Crown, has long been told as a story of men. This catalog accompanies the first exhibition devoted entirely to the role of women in the arts of Spanish Naples, a sequel to the Gallerie d’Italia‘s 2022–2023 show on Artemisia Gentileschi‘s Neapolitan years, now widened to the whole century.
Curated by Antonio Ernesto Denunzio, Raffaella Morselli, Giuseppe Porzio and Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, the exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, sculptures and manuscripts by painters, sculptors, actresses and intellectuals who were often forgotten. Artemisia Gentileschi is represented by works never before shown in Italy, lent by museums in Boston, Sarasota and Oslo, among them The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Around her appear Giovanna Garzoni, Lavinia Fontana, Fede Galizia, Maria Dominici, Teresa Del Po, Annella De Rosa and the Andalusian sculptor Luisa Roldán, together with images of women by male masters such as Velázquez‘s portrait of Maria of Hungary and Ribera‘s Bearded Woman.
The essays are by leading specialists, among them Raffaella Morselli, Cristina Terzaghi, Simona Feci, Giuseppe Porzio and Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, and the volume is illustrated with some 150 images.
An essential book for readers of Neapolitan Baroque painting and the history of women artists.
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