The Last Caravaggio exhibition at the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan kicks off.

It opened on November 30, 2017 and will run until April 8, 2018, the exhibition The Last Caravaggio. Heirs and New Masters. Naples, Genoa and Milan Compared (1610 - 1640), focusing on theartistic legacy that the great Michelangelo Merisi, known to all as Caravaggio (Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610) left after his death and on the new masters of the 17th century. The exhibition, held in Milan at the Gallerie d’Italia in Piazza Scala, revolves around The Martyrdom of St. Ursula, a work from the Naples branch of the Gallerie d’Italia (Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano) and until yesterday on loan to the Dentro Caravaggio exhibition. The painting thus shifts a few dozen meters to allow us to trace a history between 1610 and 1640 that radiates into the centers of Naples, Genoa and Milan: three cities in which the great artist’s lesson made numerous proselytes.

Interesting is the comparison between Caravaggio’s Martyrdom, made in Naples in 1610 on a commission from Marco Antonio Doria, and the work of the same subject by the Genoese Bernardo Strozzi, made between 1615 and 1618 at a time when the Ligurian artist was in contact with Giovan Carlo Doria, Marco Antonio’s brother. Genoa was a center for the spread of Caravaggesque culture thanks to the contacts that collectors had with Rome and the presence of an artist like Orazio Gentileschi who knew how to spread the novelties in the city.

Fifty works will be on display at the Milan exhibition: for Naples there are Battistello Caracciolo and Ribera, who had the opportunity to see Caravaggio’s works directly in their city, while for Genoa there will be artists such as Rubens, van Dyck and Giulio Cesare Procaccini (whose exceptional loan of theLast Supper executed for the Basilica of Santissima Annunziata del Vastato in Genoa is recorded), all of whom came from outside but had ties to Genoa because they stayed there. The latter were not followers of Caravaggio (far from it) but were nonetheless participants in the climate of artistic renewal of the time.

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (ticket office closes one hour earlier). Closed Mondays and Dec. 25; Thursday extended opening until 9:30 pm. Special openings on December 7 until 2:30 pm, December 8 and 26, January 6, and April 2, 2018. On December 24 and 31 the exhibition closes at 6 p.m., and on January 1 it opens at 2:30 p.m. Ticket that includes a visit to the permanent collections: 10 euros full, 8 euros reduced, 5 euros concessions. Free for convention members, schools, under 18s and for everyone on the first Sunday of the month. Info at www.gallerieditalia.com.

Image: Caravaggio, detail of The Martyrdom of St. Ursula (1610; oil on canvas, 143 x 180 cm; Naples, Intesa Sanpaolo Collection, Gallerie d’Italia - Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano)

The Last Caravaggio exhibition at the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan kicks off.

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