Rome, Caravaggio's weather exhibition at Capitoline Museums extended to January

The exhibition Il tempo di Caravaggio, currently running in Rome at the Palazzo Caffarelli, has been extended until Jan. 10, 2021 following the excellent reception it has received from the public and critics.

The exhibition, curated by Maria Cristina Bandera scientific director of the Longhi Foundation, is dedicated to the collection of Caravaggio paintings by the great art historian and collector Roberto Longhi(Alba 1890 - Florence 1970), whose 50th anniversary of his death falls in 2020. In his Florentine home, Villa Il Tasso, now the headquarters of the Foundation named after him, he collected a considerable number of works by masters of all periods that were an occasion for him to research. Among these, the most relevant and significant nucleus is undoubtedly the one that includes the works of Caravaggio and his followers. The art historian devoted himself to the study of Caravaggio, at the time one of the “least known painters of Italian art,” as early as his graduation thesis, discussed with Pietro Toesca, at theUniversity of Turin in 1911. A pioneering choice, which nevertheless shows how the young Longhi was able to recognize from the beginning the revolutionary scope of Merisi’s painting, so as to understand him as the first painter of the modern age.

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

Image: Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio, Ragazzo morso da un ramarro, detail (c. 1595-1596; oil on canvas, 65.8 x 52.3 cm; Florence, Fondazione Longhi)

Rome, Caravaggio's weather exhibition at Capitoline Museums extended to January

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