The Other Renaissance. Spanish Artists in Naples in the Early Cinquecento

Pedro Machuca, The Virgin and the Souls of Purgatory, 1517, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

Organized jointly with the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, The Other Renaissance illustrates a largely unknown chapter of European Renaissance culture: the period from 1504 to 1535 in the city of Naples. It was during this period that art transitioned to what Vasari called "the modern manner", also known as the High Renaissance, and the new ideas emerging in Rome and Florence were quickly received and reinterpreted in Naples which became Spanish in 1504. It was here, then, that the great artists of the first generation of the Iberian Renaissance –Pedro Fernández, Bartolomé Ordóñez, Diego de Siloe, Pedro Machuca, and perhaps also Alonso Berruguete– were able to take their first professional steps and to create a number of little known works of great importance.