Taormina will have its own Caravaggio: the Ecce Homo from Genoa to the G7

After Syracuse’s refusal, Taormina and the G7 finally managed to get their Caravaggio: it is theEcce Homo from Palazzo Bianco(Genoa), which has arrived in Sicily and will be exhibited at Palazzo Corvaja along with works by Antonello da Messina coming from Cefalù and Palermo and expected to reach Taormina in the coming days. The work was unveiled yesterday in the presence of Anthony Emanuele Barbagallo (regional councillor for tourism), Eligio Giardina (mayor of Taormina), Roberto Celli (CEO of the “Beni Culturali” company that is curating the exhibition), Piero Boccardo (director of the Strada Nuova Museums, of which Palazzo Bianco is part) and Claudio Strinati (art historian and curator).

The institutions involved in the operation expressed deep satisfaction with the result achieved and hoped that the exhibition and the G7 would bring prestige to Taormina and Sicily. “It was not easy,” Barbagallo said in a statement reported by the newspaper La Sicilia, “to bring this Caravaggio back to Sicily after almost four hundred years. But, thanks also to the extraordinary showcase of the G7, we will be able to show the history and culture of Sicily to the world. It required an important team effort, and for this I thank my colleague, Regional Councillor for Culture, Vermiglio, for his collaboration.”

Editor’s note: Actually, Genoa’s Ecce Homo, according to most scholars, is to be dated to the extreme stages of the Roman sojourn, and the fact that it was made-or, at most, later finished-in Sicily constitutes only a hypothesis.

Sources: Il Fatto Nisseno - La Sicilia

Image: Caravaggio, Ecce Homo (c. 1605; oil on canvas, 128 x 103 cm; Genoa, Palazzo Bianco)

Taormina will have its own Caravaggio: the Ecce Homo from Genoa to the G7

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