Architectures of love: Daniele Ratti's photos at the Gallerie d'Italia - Naples

11 June 2025

Intesa Sanpaolo presents Daniele Ratti’s photographic project “Due cuori e una capanna” (Two Hearts and a Hut) at the Gallerie d’Italia – Naples, offering an intimate and evocative journey through extraordinary residences and the love stories they have hosted.

The exhibition, curated by Benedetta Donato, explores living as an act of love and architecture as a keeper of emotional memory, seen through Daniele Ratti’s sensitive lens.

Family intimacy and architectural design are the two pillars of the exhibition: 42 photographs take the visitor into historical residences, modern and contemporary architecture, some well-known, some lesser-familiar, with details representing the extension of stories and feelings into architectural form.

Among the highlights are photographs of Le Cabanon, the iconic shelter designed by Le Corbusier as a birthday present for his wife in 1951, off the waters of the Côte d'Azur. Or La Cupola, a habitable sculpture that engages with the Gallurese landscape of Sardinia, bearing witness to the love between Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti.

The Naples museum, along with those of Milan, Turin and Vicenza, is part of Intesa Sanpaolo's Gallerie d’Italia museum project.

The exhibition runs from 12 June to 14 September 2025. For more information, please visit the Gallerie d'Italia website.