Via dei Tribunali is a street in the old historic center of Naples , Italy .
8-778: Lucio Amelio (13 September 1931 – 2 July 1994) was an Italian art dealer, curator, and actor. For decades he contributed to make Naples an international art centre encouraging the dialogue between European and American contemporary arts. Lucio Amelio was born on 13 September 1931 in Via dei Tribunali in Naples . He had four sisters – Marisa, Giuliana, Lina and Anna. Due to the Second World War, his family moved several times and settled in 1944 for twelve years in Resina . After graduating in 1949 from Liceo scientifico, Amelio enrolled in architecture studies at
16-658: A mile, passing the central cross-road at via San Gregorio Armeno , then crossing via Duomo near the Cathedral of Naples and ending at what was, until quite recently, the main Naples courthouse (Italian: Tribunale ), from which the street draws its name. The following are important or ancient buildings along the Street from East to West: 40°50′N 14°15′E / 40.833°N 14.250°E / 40.833; 14.250 This Italian road or road transport-related article
24-881: The University of Naples . Amelio quickly established himself as a leading figure in the international contemporary art market from the mid-sixties to the mid-nineties. In 1965 he opened the Modern Art Agency, a gallery in Parco Margherita dedicated to experimental art. In 1969 he opened the Galleria Lucio Amelio in Naples’ Piazza dei Martiri , which hosted exhibitions of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg , Mario Merz , Jannis Kounellis , Keith Haring , Cy Twombly , Dieter Hacker. In 1980 Amelio introduced Joseph Beuys to Andy Warhol , and later that year he organized
32-595: The exhibition of portraits "by Beuys, Warhol". In 1988, Amelio co-founded an art gallery, Galerie Pièce Unique , in Paris in the middle of Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood. Amelio had been HIV positive since 1987. He died in his hometown of Naples as a result of AIDS on 2 July 1994, aged 62. Lucio Amelio's grave is located on the Cimitero Acattolico , the non-Catholic cemetery, on the island of Capri . Many international writers and artists are buried there, such as
40-475: The grid of the ancient city. The modern streets/alleys overlie and follow the ancient grid of these ancient streets. The length of the modern Via dei Tribunali was determined by the urban expansion requirements of the Spanish starting in the early 16th century. The street runs from the church of San Pietro a Maiella and adjacent Naples Music Conservatory at the west end of the old city for about three-quarters of
48-482: The name of "Lucio Amelio", a circle is engraved, the interior of which, at the highest level of the sun, causes an intense light through a mirror effect; below is the inscription L'isola del Sonno (Isle of Sleep), which cites the title of a small object created by Joseph Beuys in Capri in the summer of 1974. Amelio was also an actor and worked with director Lina Wertmuller in four films. Via dei Tribunali, Naples It
56-518: The writer Norman Douglas and the French Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen – whose house on Capri, the Villa Lysis , Amelio wanted to restore in the last few years of his life had. Amelio's gravestone, a large rectangular plate made of black Belgian marble was designed Amelio himself with the help of the art critic Michele Bonuomoa year before his death. In the middle of the marble slab, under
64-479: Was the main decumanus or Decumano Maggiore — that is, the main east-west street — of the ancient Greek and then Roman city of Neapolis, paralleled to the south by the lower decumanus ( Decumano Inferiore , now called Spaccanapoli) and to the north by the upper decumanus ( Decumano Superiore ) (now via Anticaglia and Via della Sapienza ). The three decumani were (and still are) intersected by numerous north-south cross-streets called cardini , together forming
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