The exhibition ‘Capodimonte Double Caravaggio’ was inaugurated by Director Eike Schmidt in the presence of the Mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi: until November 2, Caravaggio's Ecce Homo, painted in Naples four centuries ago and rediscovered in 2021 in Madrid, is the Special Guest of the Capodimonte Museum and Real Bosco, in an artistic dialogue with the masterpiece the Flagellation of Christ. Both works were created during Merisi's Neapolitan sojourns (1606/1607 and 1609) and are now on display in Room 62 in a highly evocative confrontation that places the famous altarpiece from the Church of San Domenico (owned by the Fondo Edifici di Culto in consignment to the museum since 1972 for protection reasons) and the lost painting, which belonged to a viceroy of Naples - Garcia Avellaneda y Haro - in the mid-17th century, side by side. 'Capodimonte Double Caravaggio' is also meant to be a tribute to the city's 2,500th anniversary celebrations and is an initiative promoted in collaboration with the City of Naples. The Flagellation of Christ, after the success of the great Roman Jubilee exhibition (‘Caravaggio 2025’, March 7-July 20), has in fact immediately returned to the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, bringing with it an exceptional guest: the Spanish Ecce Homo, a painting that has been at the center of scientific and world media debate in recent years. After the attribution, the painting had in fact been immediately exhibited at the Prado Museum in Madrid, at the behest of its new owner, and is currently only allowed to leave Spain for exceptional occasions. “As soon as we learned that Ecce Homo was coming to Italy”, explains Eike Schmidt, Director of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, "we set to work to have it in Naples at the end of the Jubilee exhibition for which the Flagellation had been requested. The celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of Naples was an additional motivation for the realization of this initiative".