OLD MASTER

AND 19TH CENTURY
DRAWINGS

VINCENZO
VOLPE

MALE NUDES

This set of twelve male nudes by Vincenzo Volpe is a unique testimony to the artist’s studies when he was around eighteen years old. They also give an idea of teaching practices in the academy of the Nude at the Istituto di Belle Arti in Naples during the 1870s.

NEAPOLITAN
DRAWINGS

FROM 17TH TO 19TH CENTURY

A selection of sixteen artworks spanning three centuries of drawing in Naples, from the 1620s to the first years of the 20th century, from the Golden Age to the Morellian era, through the baroque Naples.