From October 4 to February 23, 2026, in the Queen's Apartment Halls, the exhibition "Perspectives at the Royal Palace of Caserta" by Massimo Listri will open. The exhibition pays tribute to one of the most appreciated and recognized contemporary masters of architectural and environmental photography. The over forty large-format shots that mark Listri's fifty-year career will be exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Palace, offering an overview of Italian and international places where, thematically, the photographer is inspired by the intricate perspective symmetries of Luigi Vanvitelli.

Massimo Listri has worked for the most important international art and architecture magazines, including that of the publisher Franco Maria Ricci, with whom he has produced reports on the most beautiful architectural works in the world for over twenty years. The last years have seen him also interact with the spaces of the Royal Palace of Caserta, creating the images for the volume Treccani, published in 2024. For the photographer, this is therefore a return to the Wonder of the Vanvitellian Complex, bringing into the Museum the evocative perspectives of other places that have marked his classic and visionary gaze.

Massimo Listri has a rigorous method in selecting the environments to focus on, based on a careful formal composition of the photograph, for balance and symmetry. And so in "Perspectives at the Royal Palace of Caserta" there will be the grand halls of the Uffizi and Versailles; the perspective rows of the National Gallery in London; the enchanted atmospheres of the Ducal Palace of Mantua and Palazzo Grimani; the sublime decadence of Villa Porfidia; the suspended tensions of Palazzo Butera and the Gipsoteca di Canova, just to name a few.

All spaces rendered by Listri as masterful creations of man. In the absence of human presence, the environments he portrays allow the viewer a pure contemplation, free from visual disturbances, where the gaze on the places becomes original, poetic, absolute.