On Friday 10 January, at 9.30:XNUMX, the Donnaregina Monumental Complex – Diocesan Museum of Naples (Largo Donnaregina) will host the international conference “The Neapolitan Nativity Scene as a Tool for Evangelization”, which represents an important moment of study and discussion between the major experts on the Nativity Scene in Naples and around the world, fifty years after the last conference on the subject.
The opening of the works is entrusted to HE Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Metropolitan Archbishop of Naples. The introduction and closing are by Rosario Bianco. The great value of the nativity scene will be discussed by experts in the history and content of nativity scene representations, both Italian and foreign: Monsignor Rino Fisichella, Archbishop and President of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization; the magistrate Catello Maresca; Sylvain Bellenger, director of the Capodimonte Museum; Filippo Maria Gambari, director of the National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions of Rome; Francesco Delizia, director of the National Museum of San Martino; María Teresa Marín Torres, director of the Salzillo Museum of Murcia (Es); the writer Jean-Noël Schifano; Antonio Diaz Rubio, president of the Díaz Caballero Foundation, founder of the Museo Internacional de Arte Belinista of Mollina (Málaga, Spain); Carmine Romano, art historian and expert in Nativity scene art.
The congress, announced on the occasion of the inauguration of the International Nativity Scene Exhibition, in the Church of Sant'Angelo a Segno, in via dei Tribunali 45 (open to the public until January 14), is part of a larger project conceived and realized by the entrepreneur and publisher Rosario Bianco and the magistrate Catello Maresca, with the Academy of Arts, Crafts and Professions and the PartenArt Association. A project that enjoys the patronage of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization and the Archdiocese of Naples.
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