{"id":143108,"date":"2025-08-11T12:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2025\/08\/seoul-i-capolavori-dell800-di-capodimonte-per-la-prima-volta-in-asia\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:41:35","slug":"seoul-i-capolavori-dell800-di-capodimonte-per-la-prima-volta-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-culturale\/2025\/08\/seoul-i-capolavori-dell800-di-capodimonte-per-la-prima-volta-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul, 19th-century masterpieces from Capodimonte in Asia for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 31 July 2025, the exhibition \u201cCulture and Society in the 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century collection of the Capodimonte Museum\u201d was inaugurated at the <strong>My Art Museum<\/strong> in Seoul, marking the first exhibition in Asia entirely dedicated to the 19th-century collection of the <strong>Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The opening ceremony was attended by Italian and Korean institutional representatives, the director of the hosting museum, <strong>Yi Taegun<\/strong>, the director of the Capodimonte Museum and Royal Park Collection, <strong>Eike Schmidt<\/strong>, the Italian Ambassador to Seoul, <strong>Emilia Gatto,<\/strong> the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Seoul, <strong>Michela Linda Magr\u00ec<\/strong>, as well as figures from the local cultural, academic, and media sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition features 74 works (68 oil paintings, one watercolour, one sketch, and 4 pastels) by artists such as Giovanni Boldini, Giacomo Balla, Giuseppe De Nittis, and Gioacchino Toma, among the most significant names of 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century Italian art.<\/p>\n<p>The display offers a meaningful insight into 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century Italy, with particular reference to the post-unification Neapolitan context, highlighting the role of women in society and culture of the time, as well as the portrayal of everyday life through portraits and domestic scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 31 July 2025, the exhibition \u201cCulture and Society in the 19th-century collection of the Capodimonte Museum\u201d was inaugurated at the My Art Museum in Seoul, marking the first exhibition in Asia entirely dedicated to the 19th-century collection of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples. The opening ceremony was attended by Italian [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":143030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[45,32],"class_list":["post-143108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-culturale","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143111,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143108\/revisions\/143111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}