Major Caravaggio exhibition coming to Rome. "One of the most ambitious ever."

A jubilee exhibition on Caravaggio is coming to Rome’s Palazzo Barberini. For now, not much is known: all that is known are the dates, March 7 to July 6, 2025, the title(Caravaggio 2025) and the names of the curators, namely Francesca Cappelletti (director of the Galleria Borghese), Maria Cristina Terzaghi (an art historian specializing in Caravaggio) and Thomas Clement Salomon (director of the National Galleries of Ancient Art). The presentation to the press will be held next Wednesday in the museum on Via delle Quattro Fontane, with speeches by the three curators as well as Massimo Osanna, director general of museums, and Michele Coppola, executive director of Intesa Sanpaolo’s Art, Culture and Historical Assets sector and director general of the Gallerie d’Italy (which have Caravaggio’s last known work, the Martyrdom of St. Ursula, in their Naples headquarters, reasoning that it is safe to assume that the work will be involved in the project).

For now, little is known about the review: the invitation to the press presentation contains, in the image, a detail of Judith Beheading Holofernes , which is part of the permanent collection of Palazzo Barberini (one of the two museums, along with the Corsini Gallery, that make up the National Galleries of Ancient Art), and the preview promises that there will be “an exceptional number of autograph paintings,” that the exhibition will feature “extraordinary loans from the world’s most prestigious museum institutions,” and that there will also be “two rediscovered masterpieces displayed for the first time in comparison with other works by Merisi,” as well as “new discoveries.”

The exhibition will aim to recount the innovative force introduced by Caravaggio into the artistic, religious and social landscape of his time. In addition, Caravaggio 2025 is presented as “one of the most important and ambitious exhibition projects ever dedicated to the work of Merisi, which for the first time brings back, in a place symbolic of the connection between Caravaggio and his patrons, side by side, works with a common history from important national and international collections.”

It has been eight years since there has been a major exhibition on Caravaggio: the last one, in 2017, was Dentro Caravaggio that was held in Milan, at the Palazzo Reale, curated by Rossella Vodret(here is our review). Since that occasion, there have been small in-depth or exhibitions in which Caravaggio was co-starring, but never major projects dedicated expressly to him. So there is curiosity around this new exhibition.

Major Caravaggio exhibition coming to Rome. "One of the most ambitious ever."

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