Caravaggio - Finestre sull'Arte

Three heads that disappeared with time in Caravaggio's Martyrdom of St. Ursula resurfaced

At the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition inaugurated in Rome at Palazzo Barberini, curated by Francesca Cappelletti, Maria Cristina Terzaghi and Thomas Clement Salomon, and on view from March 7 to July 6, 2025, Merisi's last work, The Martyrdom of St. Ursul...
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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 (di...
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A never-seen Caravaggio is revealed for the first time: the Portrait of Maffeo Barberini in Rome

A never-before-seen Caravaggio is unveiled to the public. In fact, from Nov. 23, 2024 to Feb. 23, 2025, the National Galleries of Ancient Art in Rome will host an event of historic significance: the first public exhibition of the Portrait of Monsigno...
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Palazzo Barberini unveils new display of Caravaggio paintings

The Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica (National Galleries of Ancient Art) at Palazzo Barberini in Rome present a new display of Caravaggio's paintings, with the intention of ensuring a better view of the artist's masterpieces and to enjoy a new persp...
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Caravaggio's Ecce Homo discovered in 2021 goes on display at Prado in Madrid

The Prado Museum and Colnaghi announce the loan of the famous masterpiece by Caravaggio (Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610),Ecce Homo discovered in 2021, to the great Madrid museum at the request of the painting's new owner. The Prado Museum will pres...
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The Taking of Christ from the Ruffo collection, an invention of Caravaggio, is on display in Naples

At the Fondazione Banco di Napoli, from March 2 to June 16, 2024, the exhibition of the painting The Taking of Christ, an important version of a well-known work by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, curated by Francesco Petrucci and Don Gianni Citro....
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Rome, Caravaggio and Goya compared in an exhibition at the Capitoline Museums

Caravaggio and Goya compared in an exhibition in Rome's Capitoline Museums. Entitled Goya and Caravaggio: Truth and Rebellion , the exhibition project that compares Caravaggio 's Buona ventura (Michelangelo Merisi; Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610) a...
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Madrid, Prado restores its Caravaggio: here's the work as we've never seen it before

In Madrid, the Museo del Prado is returning to exhibit its only Caravaggio work, the David with the Head of Goliath from around 1600, after a painstaking restoration made possible thanks to the support of the Fundación Iberdrola España....
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