Caravaggio - Finestre sull'Arte

But does it make sense to compare Caravaggio and Jago inside a museum?

I have a hard time believing that the Basket of Fruit on Caravaggio is innocent, especially if its supposed clarity should stand out by contrast when looking at it together with Jago's Basket of Arms that the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan has been d...
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Great Art at the Movies returns with degenerate art and Caravaggio in Rome

This fall, Nexo Studios ' "Great Art at the Movies" project will return to Italian theaters with two new special events: The Great Fear of Hitler - Trial of Degenerate Art, scheduled for November 3, 4 and 5, 2025, while Caravaggio in Rome. The Jubile...
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From theft to chronicle: book on Caravaggio's missing Nativity in Rome

A few days after the closing of the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition set up at Palazzo Barberini, Rome, the capital is once again wondering about one of the mysteries of Italian art history: the theft of the Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis, paint...
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Caravaggio in Rome, record-breaking exhibition: visited by over 450 thousand people

With more than 450,000 visitors in 137 days of opening, the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition has emerged as the most successful exhibition event in the history of Palazzo Barberini and the National Galleries of Ancient Art. The exhibition, dedicated to the...
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On the Caravaggio exhibition. A reply to the director of the National Galleries of Rome.

I would like to respond to the director of the National Galleries of Ancient Art in Rome, Thomas Clement Salomon, who in a long, dense and interesting interview with Pietro Di Loreto on About Art Online responds to the considerations I had made in my...
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Naples, the most talked-about work of recent years arrives: the Ecce Homo attributed to Caravaggio

From July 24 to Nov. 2, 2025, the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte is hosting an exhibition of special significance: Capodimonte Doppio Caravaggio, which brings to Naples Ecce Homo, recently attributed to Caravaggio and now housed at the Prado Museu...
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Caravaggio at Palazzo Barberini, Odescalchi Conversion exhibition extended

The National Galleries of Ancient Art have announced the extension of the exhibition of the Conversion of Saul, a famous altarpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, also known as the Odescalchi Altarpiece. The painting will remain on public view...
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The serpent woman: Lilith, Eve and the Gorgon, origin and transformation of temptation

Some call it Kundalini, some identify it with the Dragon, and some consider it a cosmic principle. In some religious traditions it takes the form of the Ouroboros, a symbol of eternal return. Within our imagination, the serpent has always exercised a...
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