Baroque paintings, music and animation take art lovers in Hong Kong on an immersive journey
- Paintings from a nearly 300-year-old museum in Naples, Italy, are on display at the Hong Kong Museum of Art’s ‘The Road to the Baroque’ exhibition
- Works by Titian, El Greco and a rare woman artist of the time are included, accompanied by music and soundscapes that make for an immersive experience
Vibrant, dramatic and gripping, Baroque paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries have gone on show in the Hong Kong Museum of Art’s “The Road to the Baroque” exhibition.
The 40 paintings loaned from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte – a nearly 300-year-old museum in Naples, Italy, that owns one of the largest art collections in Europe – include magnificent examples by some of Western art’s greatest names.
Like the Hermitage art museum in St Petersburg, Russia, and the Louvre in Paris, the Capodimonte is in a former palace. Its collection of over 47,000 pieces is built on a vast royal collection, according to Capodimonte’s director, Sylvain Bellenger.
“Baroque is an expression of the greatness of man, God and nature all mixed together,” he says, adding that the exhibition aims to show “the road to Baroque”, meaning the evolution of art history from the Renaissance era to the turbulence of the 17th century when war and plague were rife across Europe.
