baroque art - Finestre sull'Arte

Major Caravaggio exhibition coming to Rome. "One of the most ambitious ever."

A jubilee exhibition on Caravaggio is coming to Rome's Palazzo Barberini. For now, not much is known: all that is known are the dates, March 7 to July 6, 2025, the title(Caravaggio 2025) and the names of the curators, namely Francesca Cappelletti (di...
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Michael Sweerts, from the vestiges of Rome to the shadows of the East.

He must have been quite a guy, this Sweerts. From a Flemish family ennobled by the textile trade, Andrea, G. De Marchi and Claudio Seccaroni recall today in the catalog of the exhibition, still running in Rome until Jan. 18 at the Accademia di San Lu...
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Art in the Ludovisi papacy, among the shortest of the seventeenth century. What the exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale looks like.

The most monumental altarpiece by Giovan Francesco Barbieri known as Guercino was commissioned to the Cento painter in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV, born Alessandro Ludovisi, for the head altar of the north aisle of St. Peter's Basilica, where in 1606 the...
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UK attempts to purchase a very rare Flemish work from the 17th century

A very rare Flemish work of the seventeenth century is in danger of leaving the United Kingdom , and the government is temporarily halting its export: the measure will be used to allow time for a British public institution to raise the sum needed to ...
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An esoteric masterpiece by Salvator Rosa lands in the Uffizi: purchased the Witch

An extraordinary work, charged with mystery and disquiet, becomes part of the Uffizi's holdings. The Witch by Salvator Rosa (Naples, 1615 - Rome, 1673) purchased by the museum for 450,000 euros, represents one of the highest and boldest examples of 1...
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When art and poetry were twins. What the exhibition "Painting and Poetry" at the Borghese Gallery looks like.

It's hard to pay attention to the base when admiring Bernini'sApollo and Daphne , caught up in that marvel of marble, Apollo's running, Daphne's fingers becoming branches and laurel leaves, Daphne's legs becoming a trunk, the nymph's lightness, Berni...
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Outstanding discovery in Genoa, Caravaggio work found: it is an Adoration by Matthias Stomer

An important discovery in Genoa , where a Caravaggesque canvas, attributed to Matthias St omer, also known as Matthias Stom (Amersfoort, c. 1600 - Sicily, after 1650), a great Dutch painter, who was influenced by Caravaggio's followers from his coun...
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Pietro da Cortona's The Triumph of Divine Providence, a fundamental text of 17th-century art

When, in August 1623, Maffeo Barberini (Florence, 1568 - Rome, 1644) ascended to the papal throne with the name of Urban VIII, many intellectuals, scientists and artists rested their hopes on this learned and refined man, hoping for a cultural renewa...
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