Caravaggio - Finestre sull'Arte

Caravaggio, monitoring campaign begins on Contarelli Chapel masterpieces

Operations to monitor the state of conservation of the three famous Caravaggio canvases in the Contarelli Chapel inside the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome have begun. TheCentral Institute for Restoration (ICR) in Rome announced this today t...
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Interview with Roberto Bolle and Mauro Bigonzetti: "This is why we brought Caravaggio to the theater."

In May, choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti's ballet Caravaggio was presented for the first time in Italy, seventeen years after its debut in 2008 in Berlin. It fell to étoile Roberto Bolle to interpret Caravaggio, who took the show on stage at the...
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Caravaggio exhibition in Rome extends hours until midnight. New tickets available

Extraordinary public success for the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition at the National Galleries of Ancient Art in Rome, at the Palazzo Barberini venue(here is our review): as we reported a few days ago, less than two months after its opening, the exhibiti...
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Caravaggio exhibition sold out: how to visit it anyway

Sold out for the Caravaggio exhibition in Rome. The Caravaggio 2025 exhibition, housed in the historic rooms of Palazzo Barberini (our review here), is already all booked up for single visitors until its closing date, July 6, 2025. The inability to f...
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New Caravaggio discovered? One of his best-known scholars believes he has found an original

Has a new Caravaggio been discovered? This is the question one asks after reading the words of Gianni Papi, one of the best-known experts on the great Lombard artist, interviewed for Corriere della Sera by Edoardo Sassi. The newspaper first gives an ...
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Magdalene in Ecstasy attributed to Caravaggio on exhibition in India

For the first time in history, a painting attributed to Caravaggio is on display in India. The much-discussed Magdalene in Ecstasy is in fact the focus of an exhibition at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi, which opened April 11, 2025...
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The Taking of Christ attributed to Caravaggio is on display in Gorizia.

From April 3 to June 30, 2025, the "Smart Space" exhibition space of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia welcomes a much-debated work: The Taking of Christ from the Ruffo Collection, a work that some scholars attribute to Caravaggio as part ...
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Florence, an exhibition at Villa Bardini on Roberto Longhi and Anna Banti at the center of a lively intellectual exchange

Villa Bardini in Florence is hosting from March 27 to July 2025 the exhibition Caravaggio and the Twentieth Century. Roberto Longhi, Anna Banti, curated by Cristina Acidini and Claudio Paolini, promoted by the Fondazione CR Firenze in collaboration w...
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