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Caravaggio's Wine: What Does the Goblet Offered by the Uffizi's Bacchus Signify?

One could almost say that Caravaggio’s*Bacchus* (Michelangelo Merisi; Milan, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610), now housed in the Uffizi Gallery, is a 20th-century painting: for more than three centuries, in fact, the painting depicting the Ro...
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Caravaggio in the Feluca. An Overlooked but Exquisite "San Giovannino"

These days, it seems that the public’s interest in Caravaggio tends to overshadow that directed at every other genius of painting, driven by the constant stream of solo exhibitions popping up just about everywhere, the endless films and documen...
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Caravaggio's Portrait of Maffeo Barberini on display for about a month at the Senate

From May 28 to June 21, 2026, the Chapter House of the Senate Library, inside the Palazzo della Minerva in Rome, will temporarily host the Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, a painting by Caravaggio acquired by the Italian state last March. The...
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Caravaggio, a major exhibition in Detroit in 2027 on his relationship with models: 25 works

A new key to interpreting the work of Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi; Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610): this is what will be offered in a year's time, from March 21 to July 18, 2027, by a major exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, entitled ...
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Caravaggio and his models: a survey of sources and reconstructions of female figures

The meeting Beyond the Canvas will be held on May 5 in the Sala di Liegro of Palazzo Valentini in Rome. Caravaggio's Roman Models, an appointment dedicated to the analysis of one of the most discussed aspects of the production of Michelangelo Merisi ...
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The Man of the Two Caravaggios. Mario Bigetti and the debate over the Capture and the St. Francis

He makes an appointment for me in the store of one of his colleagues, concealed in the courtyard of a nineteenth-century palace on Via Vittoria Colonna. He, Mario Bigetti, doyen of Rome's antiquarians, no longer has his own store, no longer even work...
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State buys Caravaggio's Portrait of Maffeo Barberini for 30 million for Palazzo Barberini

The deed of purchase of Caravaggio's Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, a work of extraordinary importance that will become part of the heritage of the Italian state, was signed today at the Ministry of Culture. Upon completion of the required a...
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Seven Works for Mercy: seven international artists dialogue with Caravaggio in Naples

From Jan. 25 to April 24, 2026, the Pio Monte della Misericordia church in Naples will host the eighth edition of the Sette Opere per la Misericordia (Seven Works for Mercy) project, an initiative that brings together contemporary works inspired by t...
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