Caravaggio exhibition in Milan extended: here's what to know

The major exhibition Dentro Caravaggio currently underway at Milan’s Palazzo Reale has been extended by a week: in fact, the closure initially scheduled for Sunday, January 28, has been postponed to Sunday, February 4. The decision was made by the management of Palazzo Reale and producer MondoMostre Skira, given the great success of the exhibition: from September 29 to January 17, more than 320,000 visitors came to Milan to admire the works of Michelangelo Merisi (Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610). At this link you can read our review of the exhibition, written by Ilaria Baratta.

During the extended week, the exhibition will be open daily from 9:30 a.m. to midnight, except Monday, January 29, when it will open at 1:30 p.m. Entrance, in the last week, will be allowed only to unbooked individual visitors: therefore, groups and open ticket holders will not be allowed to enter, nor will reservations be possible. The organization recommends choosing the evening bands. Last access at 11 pm.

Then, on January 29 and 30, there will be two Study Days (meetings with free admission subject to availability, in the Conference Room of Piazza Duomo 14) that will feature, on the first day, Rossella Vodret (curator of the exhibition), Keith Christiansen (Metropolitan of New York), Alessandro Zuccari (University La Sapienza of Rome), Raffaella Morselli (University of Teramo), Francesca Cappelletti (University of Ferrara), Stefania Macioce (University La Sapienza of Rome), Cristina Terzaghi (University of Roma Tre), and Massimo Ammaniti (University La Sapienza of Rome). On the second day, all dedicated to Caravaggio’s painting technique, there will instead be Claudio Falcucci (responsible for the diagnostic investigations of several works in the exhibition), Kamilla Kalinina (Hermitage of St. Pietrbourgo), Ulderico Santamaria and Fabio Morresi(Vatican Museums), Isabella Castiglioni (CNR - Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology). The study days, like the exhibition, were made possible thanks to contributions from the Bracco Group and Intesa Sanpaolo. Here is the full program:

First session: Jan. 29 - Art history and the relationship with diagnostics - coordinatorRossella Vodret

9:30 a.m. - Opening of the session, Institutional greetings
10:00 a.m. - Reserved visit to the exhibition “Inside Caravaggio”
11:45-12:00 - Coffee break
12:00 - Rossella Vodret, curator of the exhibition and former Special Superintendent for the Polo Museale di Roma: “Inside Caravaggio” between art history and technical analysis: confirmations and open questions
12:30 p.m. - Keith Christiansen, chairman of the exhibition’s scientific committee, and chair of the Metropolitan Museum’s John Pope-Hennessy Department of European Painting
13:30-15:00 - Visit to the exhibition The Last Caravaggio. Heirs and New Masters, at the Gallerie d’Italia (lunch for speakers)

15:30 - Alessandro Zuccari, Sapienza University of Rome: For Caravaggio’s Chronology Prior to the Contarelli Chapel
16:00 - Raffaella Morselli, University of Teramo: Matters of Shields and Swords. Caravaggio’s finances
16:30 - Massimo Ammaniti, Sapienza University of Rome: Caravaggio and the representation of trauma
16:30-16:45 - Coffee break
16:45 - Round table (Rossella Vodret, Claudio Falcucci, Massimo Ammaniti, Francesca Cappelletti, Isabella Castiglioni, Keith Christiansen, Kamilla Kalinina, Stefania Macioce, Fabio Morresi, Raffaella Morselli, Ulderico Santamaria, Cristina Terzaghi, Alessandro Zuccari)

Second session: Jan. 30 - Insights into painting technique - coordinator Claudio Falcucci

9:30 - Introduction (Claudio Falcucci)
9:45 - Stefania Macioce, Sapienza University of Rome: Clues to the Judith Turquin
10:15 - Claudio Falcucci, coordinator of the diagnostic investigations of the exhibition “Inside Caravaggio”
10:45-11:00 - Coffee break
11:00 - Kamilla Kalinina, Hermitage Museum
11:30 - Ulderico Santamaria, Fabio Morresi, Vatican Museums
12:00 - Isabella Castiglioni, CNR - Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology
12:30 - Round table (Rossella Vodret, Claudio Falcucci, Massimo Ammaniti, Francesca Cappelletti, Isabella Castiglioni, Keith Christiansen, Kamila Kalinina, Stefania Macioce, Fabio Morresi.

Pictured: a room of the exhibition Dentro Caravaggio. Photo by Molteni & Motta.

Caravaggio exhibition in Milan extended: here's what to know

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