(ANSA) – NAPLES, 06 DEC – Classical iconography, medieval culture, QR Code to browse miniatures and podcasts to listen to the voices of Dante’s characters: it is “Divine Archeology. Mythology and history of Dante’s Comedy in the MANN collections” (up to 2 May ’22) the exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples that closes the year of the ‘700’.
Of the 56 exhibits including vases, statues, reliefs, coins, many come from the inexhaustible deposits of the MANN. The guiding image is the portrait of Alighieri (1888) by Paolo Vetri, on the ceiling of the room of the Oriental Cults, once a library.
“The Supreme Poet was among the first who, in the Middle Ages, made a reflection on ancient culture, based on literary sources. As teacher and companion he chose Virgil, strongly linked to the city of Naples. The MANN has an extraordinary heritage that allows you to set up a a real repertoire of characters, real and fantastic, who appear in the story of the Divine Comedy “explains the director of the Museum, Paolo Giulierini. Housed in the frescoes rooms, the exhibition is curated by Valentina Cosentino, with the contribution of the Campania Region and the collaboration of the Illuminated Dante Project, University of Naples Federico II. Thus we meet Achilles (in a fresco he is educated by the centaur Chiron), Heracles, on splendid works such as the two silver cups from the house of the Menander of Pompeii, the myth of Aeneas.
Do not miss the fresco with Ariadne offering the thread to Theseus (House of the ancient hunting in Pompeii). There is the famous marble statue of Diomede da Cuma; the panathenaic amphora with the rape of Palladio, monstrous creatures such as Medusa (from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum), the Harpies. Greek and Roman bronze coins (4th-2nd century BC) from the Necropolis of Santa Teresa refer to Charon.
And again the Apollo in bronze from Pompeii, thematic focuses on Muses, Mars, Venus, Hades. From myth to history the story continues with a Julius Caesar coin, the statue of Trajan, a solid of Constantine and one of Justinian. Philosophy and poetry are represented by the marble busts of Homer, Socrates, Pseudo-Seneca, the bronze bust of Democritus and the famous relief with Orpheus and Eurydice. (HANDLE).
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