Tour of the Baroque in Naples

price up to 6 people

160,00 €

Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday

Max 6 people

2 hours

Minimum age 18 years

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The Sansevero Chapel, the Church of Gesù Nuovo and the paintings of Caravaggio and of the Caravaggio school: explore the age of Baroque in Naples with an expert of History and Art.

Throughout this tour of the Neapolitan Baroque, you shall discover some of the greatest Art treasures in the capital of the Campania region, and we shall stroll along the Neapolitan streets in order to better perceive from close by , the influence of the great painter Caravaggio had on the artists of his time… and the beautiful works of art which are preserved in neapolitan churches.

In the 17th Century, Naples was a crucial commercial center and the flux of economic benefit it enjoyed naturally influenced also art and in particular painting and architecture.

The tour of the Baroque in Naples begins inside the Church of Gesù Nuovo, right in the heart of the city, right opposite the Monastery of Santa Chiara. It is one of the most important and biggest churches in Naples and in it you can admire one of the greatest assembling of Baroque sculpture and painting of the Neaplitan School, priding itself of paintings by Luca Giordano and sculptures by Cosimo Fanzago, both key elements of the Neapolitan Baroque current.

Admiring the extreme opulence inside the Church of Gesù Nuovo in Naples, you shall feel entangled withing the spires of a Paradise sown web of beauty, where you awe shall stand side by side with the full awareness of the high peaks reached by the Neapolitan artists of the Baroque, who, in their endless effort to understand the free flight of energies by the most voluptuous form, created masterpieces which were thought possible to exist only in the world of Angels.

You shall feel as if spectators drawn into a parallel world, still created by man, however… Men, the most crucial goal of whom was to let us take full position of the “light inside us”… as clearly shown by the works of Caravaggio and also by the works of those belonging to the Caravaggio School: Ribera and Battistello above all, who on the flow of the Caravaggio’s artistic inheritance offered in an endless evolving of new “births and deaths” the chance to ponder upon artistic forms which seem modelled only through light, presenting in ever new keys where originality was the main issue, a vision of life which in the blinking of an eye is ready to convey the infinite joyfulness and tragedy of the human condition.

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The great painter Caravaggio was in Naples from 1606 to 1607 and, while in town, worked on some of his most important masterpieces. Of the many existing, you shall admire the masterpiece “The seven works of mercy” inside the Palazzo of Pio Monte, a masterful example of Baroque architecture, and “The martyrdom of Saint Orsola”, a painting part of the art collection of Palazzo Zevallos in Naples, which, with its particular light, seems to tell us that Baroque is none else that a form of art made possible by the perseverance and obstination of great men who were trying to better understand the greatest form of art of all, that created by God.

The same masterpiece of the “Veiled Christ”, a marble sculpture by Giuseppe Sammartino, preserved inside the Sansevero Chapel in Naples, one of the greatest sculpture masterpieces existing, offers us a vision of Christ’s effigy that is only to be perceived through the myriad of see-through shaded angles of the veil covering his face, which in their realistic perfection, remind us of the theory of the blending of elements typical of the alchemic occult.

In our tour of the Baroque in Naples, you shall enjoy the natural joyfulness and thousand-year old history of the town blend to perfection with the majestic “trompe d’oeil”, architectonic and artistic, which allows us to understand in a full overview, all the nobility and tragedy of the neapolitan people, aways looking for new ways with which to fully express their multi-talented uniqueness and versatility.

The tour of the Baroque shall allow you to delve to the discovery of multiple works of art inside the churches of Naples, together with a fully expert guide, a real “art connaisseur”, who shall enlighten you, with key attention to the particular, regarding the contents of a unique in the world collection… unique because of the variety of subjects and number of paintings, dating back to this extraordinary historic/artistic time of the Baroque, in Naples, and in the whole of Italy.

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The transport to the site offers 3 options:

The local train line “Circumvesuviana” which runs every half hour from
Sorrento to destination, and will take approx. 40 minutes for Pompeii; an
hour for Herculaneum and 1 hour 20 for Naples. It’s economic but quite raw.
The train line “Campania Express” which runs at approx a couple of hours
distance one from the other, and takes about 25 minutes to Pompeii, 40 min.
to Herculaneum and about 55 min. to Naples. It costs a little bit more but
offers more guarantees for a seat and cuts off most of the intermediate stops
in between Sorrento and destination.
Private car hire.