A major exhibition on Caravaggio in Paris this fall.

A major exhibition on Michelangelo Merisi, known to all as Caravaggio (Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610), is coming to Paris this fall: the show, titled Caravage à Rome, amis et ennemis (“Caravaggio in Rome, friends and enemies”), will be on view at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris from September 21, 2018 to January 28, 2019. Ten Caravaggio masterpieces will go to France, on loan from major Italian museums such as the Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Barberini, Galleria Borghese and Musei Capitolini (Rome), Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan), Musei di Strada Nuova (Genoa), and Museo Civico “Ala Ponzone” (Cremona). Along with Caravaggio’s works will be exhibited paintings by contemporary artists such as Cavalier d’Arpino, Annibale Carracci, Orazio Gentileschi, Giovanni Baglione, and José de Ribera: they will frame the context within which Caravaggio’s inspiration was born and developed.

The exhibition, curated by Francesca Cappelletti, among the world’s leading experts on Caravaggio, and Pierre Curie, will investigate the Lombard artist’s Roman years, from his arrival in the capital of the Papal States to the episode of Ranuccio Tomassoni’s murder in 1606 that forced the painter to flee Rome. The exhibition will also focus on his relationships with Roman intellectuals of the time, with collectors and his patrons (such as Francesco Maria del Monte and Vincenzo Giustiniani) and with other artists: some of these connections, the introduction promises, “have never been the subject of an exhibition.” But there will also be room for Caravaggio’s enemies: “in addition to Caravaggio’s friends and supporters, the exhibition will also present the enemies and rivals present on the Roman art scene of the time. Caravaggio, who did not want to be imitated and therefore was imitated in spite of himself, sometimes opposed his contemporaries in arguments, fights and trials.”

More details will follow soon.

Pictured: Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus (1606; oil on canvas, 141 x 175 cm; Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera)

A major exhibition on Caravaggio in Paris this fall.

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