Palermo, Italia
Esta nota se propone comentar el catálogo de la exposición de los cartones y tapices de la colección Storie di Don Chisciotte, que Carlos de Borbón proyectó para los apartamentos del Palacio de Caserta (Nápoles 19/05/2022 - 10/01/2023). Las nuevas obras tenían que integrar los episodios de los doce Gobelins sobre el Quijote que Carlos había comprado. A su ejecución colaboraron los mejores pintores de la corte y el maestro tapicero Duranti. Vanvitelli, el arquitecto del palacio de Caserta, nunca fue favorable a la voluntad de Carlos y, de hecho, los tapices no se expusieron nunca en los apartamentos del Palacio de Caserta. Los excelentes estudios efectuados han permitido reconstruir los dos siglos de las aventuras que sufrieron las obras hasta parar definitivamente entre el Palacio Real de Nápoles y el Quirinal de Roma.
This note aims to comment on the catalog of the cardboard and tapestry exhibition (Naples, May 19, 2022 - January 10, 2023) that comprises the Storie di Don Chisciotte collection, a project by Charles of Bourbon for the apartments in the Palace of Caserta. These new works were intended to complement the twelve Gobelins episodes about Don Quixote that Charles had purchased. The best court painters, as well as the master upholsterer Duranti, took part in their execution. However, the architect Vanvitelli, who had designed the Palace of Caserta, never agreed with Charles’ wish. In fact, the tapestries were never exhibited in the apartments of the Palace of Caserta. An excellent research effort has made it possible to reconstruct the two-century-long adventure that these works had to undergo before finally being placed in the Royal Palace of Naples and the ‘Quirinal’ in Rome.