Caravaggio

Longhi’s lifetime ambition was the artistic re-evaluation of Caravaggio and his importance to seventeenth-century Baroque painting. He reached his goal by curating two mega-exhibitions in Milan: “Caravaggio e i caravaggeschi” in 1951 and “I pittori della realtà in Lombardia” in...

On May 29th, 1606 during a brawl in Piazza Navona, Caravaggio (1571-1610) murdered the pimp from Terni, Ranuccio Tomassoni, who had VIP clients: nobles, notaries, cardinals.  The painter was sentenced to death.  To avoid papal justice, this hot-headed and often...

But should the question “is it a Caravaggio or isn’t it a Caravaggio?” really be at the forefront of people’s minds the evening before International Women’s Day?

Esposizioni multimediali si alternano a mostre esposizioni più classiche, dalle cupe atmosfere della pittura del Seicento, ai ritratti dell'alta società di inizio Novecento fino agli scatti delle muse che hanno ispirato lo stile dagli anni Novanta ad oggi

"Artemisia Gentileschi and Her Times:" an exhibition celebrating the unrecognised success of Artemisia Gentileschi, a female artist who was undervalued in her time, but managed to achieve recognition in the male-dominated art world of the post-Renaissance era.

Dal'8 febbraio al 6 aprile, al Muscarelle Museum of Art nel College di William & Mary a Williamsburg (Virginia) saranno in mostra due versioni del San Francesco in Meditazione e la Buona Ventura