TRAVEL

Naples, Italy


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A 19th-century statue in the Fontanelle cemetery.

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A view of the Mediterranean from Lungomare Caracciolo, the city’s main seaside avenue.

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The tomb of Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero, an 18th-century royal.

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MADRE chief curator Mario Codognato in one of the museum’s rooms painted by Francesco Clemente.

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A piazza in the historic city center.

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A detail from a 19th-century monument in Piazza dei Martiri.

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The steamy landscape of the Solfatara.

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Francesco Clemente’s fresco Ab Ovo, created specially for MADRE in 2005.

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The polygonal apse of the Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina, which dates from 1320 and now belongs to MADRE.

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Artist Michele Iodice in his studio, which is housed in one of the city’s many grottoes.

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An electric rosary, similar to ones used in Neapolitan churches, hangs in Nathalie de Saint Phalle’s apartment alongside works by several artist friends.

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A view of the sea from Palazzo donn’Anna, a baroque palace commissioned in the 1640s but never finished.

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An art-filled bedroom at de Saint Phalle’s apartment.

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The Cappella Sansevero, which dates from 1590 and houses the tombs of the di Sangro family.

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An interior cloister of Donna Regina Vecchia Church.

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Nathalie de Saint Phalle in her gallery, the Kaplan Project.