Rome, at the Capitoline Museums an exhibition on Caravaggesque works from Roberto Longhi's collection

The Capitoline Museums, at their headquarters in Palazzo Caffarelli, will host the exhibition The Time of Caravaggio. Masterpieces from the Collection of Roberto Longhi from March 12 to September 13, 2020.

The exhibition, curated by Maria Cristina Bandera, scientific director of the Longhi Foundation, is dedicated to the so-called Caravaggeschi, to whom the great art historian and collector Roberto Longhi devoted a lifetime of study. The works of Caravaggio ’s followers are surely the most important and significant part of his collection, which was formed precisely around Merisi’s painting Ragazzo morso da un ramarro (Boy Bitten by a Lizard), which he bought in 1928.

The exhibition includes nearly 50 works that show the importance of Caravaggio’s legacy and his poetry: from the Negation of Peter, a great masterpiece by Valentin de Boulogne, recently exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre Museum in Paris, to major works by artists who assimilated Caravaggio’s lesson, such as - just to name a few - Jusepe de Ribera, Battistello Caracciolo, Matthias Stomer, and Giovanni Lanfranco. Caravaggeschi in the Longhi collection.

For all information you can visit the official website of the Capitoline Museums.

Pictured: Valentin de Boulogne, The Denial of Peter (c. 1615-1617; oil on canvas, 171.5 x 241 cm; Florence, Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell’Arte Roberto Longhi)

Rome, at the Capitoline Museums an exhibition on Caravaggesque works from Roberto Longhi's collection

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