Gallerie d’Italia

Gallerie d’Italia is more than a museum. It is a vibrant and well-known venue playing an active role within the city’s social and cultural context, offering a rich programme of events, temporary exhibitions, educational activities, concerts, and talks organized in collaboration with the most important local, national, and international cultural institutions.

Gallerie d’Italia offers an anthology describing the main stages of Neapolitan painting, from the early seventeenth century, with the intense Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (Caravaggio’s last masterpiece completed only a few weeks before his death in 1610), up to the nineteenth century. Most remarkable artists displayed at Gallerie d’Italia include: Louis Finson with a famous painting from a lost Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Bernardo Cavallino, Angelo Caroselli, Paolo Porpora, Francesco Guarini, Luca Giordano, Francesco Solimena, Gaspare Traversi, Gaspar van Wittel, Anton Smink Pitloo, Giacinto Gigante, Gabriele Smargiassi, Salvatore Fergola, Nicola Palizzi, Domenico Morelli, Gioacchino Toma, Vincenzo Migliaro, and others. Lastly, the museum holds an outstanding selection of works by Vincenzo Gemito: terracotta sculptures, bronzes, and drawings forming one of the most important collections documenting this artist’s extraordinary career from the 1870s to the 1920s.

Gallerie d’Italia is more than a museum. It is a vibrant and well-known venue playing an active role within the city’s social and cultural context, offering a rich programme of events, temporary exhibitions, educational activities, concerts, and talks organized in collaboration with the most important local, national, and international cultural institutions.