From 1 July to 16 October the Royal Palace of Caserta hosts the Fragments of Paradise exhibition. Gardens over time at the Royal Palace of Caserta, curated by Tiziana Maffei , director of the Museum, Alberta Campitelli and Alessandro Cremona .

A kaleidoscope of representations from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century that cross and affect the whole peninsula in the diversity of landscapes, cultural models and lifestyles, evoking, through contact with nature, the lost Eden to which man gives always aspires. The gardens painted or reproduced aim to immortalize their fleeting beauty, to pass it on over time. The relationship between the royal garden and its representations also stimulates visitors to carefully reflect on the protection and preservation of the nature that surrounds us.

The seven themes that make up the exhibition unfold along the large rooms of the Queen's Apartment, overlooking the incomparable view of the Royal Park with the scenic waterway, in an evocative setting conceived by Lucio Turchetta with Vincenzo De Luce . In the articulation of the sections, numerous works are presented, in many cases unpublished, from prestigious Italian and European museums and institutions including the Prado and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museums in Madrid , the Versailles Museum, the Capodimonte Museum , the Gallerie dell 'Accademia di Venezia , the Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Pitti in Florence, the Museum of Rome , as well as private collections, libraries and other public institutions, such as the Botanical Gardens of Naples and Portici . Among the many artists, such as Gaspar van Wittel, Claude Lorrain, Paolo Anesi, Pietro and Gianlorenzo Bernini, Hubert Robert, Hendrick van Cleve III, Jules-César-Denis van Loo, Giusto Utens, Joseph Heintz the younger and other famous landscape painters , a prominent role naturally belongs to Jacob Philipp Hackert who has dedicated many works to the gardens and landscapes of Campania and southern Italy.