At the Gallerie Estensi in Modena, Italy's first major exhibition dedicated to Hendrick ter Brugghen

From October 13, 2023 to January 14, 2024, the Estense Galleries of Modena presents Ter Brugghen. From Holland to Italy in the Footsteps of Caravaggio, the first major Italian exhibition dedicated to the Dutch painter Hendrick ter Brugghen (The Hague, 1588 - Utrecht, 1629). The exhibition curated by Federico Fischetti and Gianni Papi aims to retrace the artist’s extraordinary stay in Italy, an experience that strongly influenced his painting.

The discovery of Ter Brugghen’s Italian phase is a recent event. Although it was known that the painter had resided in Rome and Italy for at least six or seven years, between about 1607-1608 and 1614, studies had not delved deeply into this early period, which instead, like all the experiences lived by Nordic painters in the papal capital, could be assumed to be crucial for his path.

The exhibition therefore aims to present the very important results of the most recent research on Ter Brugghen, bringing together all the works belonging to the artist’s Italian phase, which places him among the protagonists of the first naturalistic movement that sprang from the Caravaggesque revolution: alongside Ribera and the other participants in Caravaggio’s “schola,” namely Bartolomeo Manfredi, Cecco del Caravaggio and Spadarino.

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At the Gallerie Estensi in Modena, Italy's first major exhibition dedicated to Hendrick ter Brugghen

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