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The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the west
The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the east
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The Visitation
The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the west
The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the east
Portrait of Louise Loy Smart
Portrait of Louis Dufort-Duras Earl of Feversham
King David and the water carriers, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Night snow in Kambara
Mario Furio Camillo arrives in Rome to negotiate with the Gauls
Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine
Madonna
Prayer before the storm
Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
Portrait of Michele Coronini Cronberg
Pair of glasses
Spoil
Shelf clock
Pair of cafes
Pair of salt cellars
Pitcher and sugar bowl
Spring
About the game of chess
Shelf clock
Desk service
Shotgun
Cup with saucer
The man who looks at the sun
The sneeze
Bureau-cabinet
Spoil
Wedding fan
Folding fan
Dress with tailcoat, breeches and waistcoat
Cup with saucer
Glass
Bracelet with miniature portrait of Count Edwin de Fagan
Soup bowl
Etagère with mirror
The Visitation

The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the east

Antonio Joli

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Palazzo Coronini Cronberg Foundation

Palazzo Coronini Cronberg Foundation

Viale XX Settembre, 14, Gorizia

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This painting and its counterpart were conceived to offer an entire view of the Gulf of Naples. In the foreground they present the parade of the royal procession which was held on 8 September each year along the Riviera di Chiaia towards the church of Santa Maria di Piedigrotta. It was a grandiose military parade, in which among the wings of a cheering crowd, the royal carriages and the entire court paraded against the suggestive background of the Bay of Naples, creating a spectacle of incomparable beauty, of which numerous figurative testimonies remain. The artist who best grasped this extraordinary synthesis of history and nature was Antonio Joli from Modena (circa 1700-1777). Heir to Gaspar van Wittel's lucid Enlightenment landscape painting, Joli enriched and personalized his own language through long stays in the main European capitals, where he made himself appreciated as a scenographer and landscape painter, finally reaching, precisely in Naples, the culmination of a long and successful career. Inside the royal carriage, represented in the first of the two paintings, the figure of the child king Ferdinand IV is clearly recognizable, ascended to the throne in 1759, at the age of eight, following the abdication of his father, Charles of Bourbon, who he had inherited the crown of Spain. Since, however, the latter is still represented next to his son, the parade, in which both sovereigns exceptionally participated, must be that of 8 September 1759, which was immediately held the coronation of Ferdinand and shortly before the departure of Charles for Spain.
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Title: The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the east

Author: Antonio Joli

Date: 1759 - 1760

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Palazzo Coronini Cronberg Foundation

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