Caravaggio - Finestre sull'Arte

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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Caravaggio's Young Man with a Basket of Fruit is in New York.

One of Caravaggio 's masterpieces from the Galleria Borghese, The Young Man with a Basket of Fruit, is in New York , where starting tomorrow it is the focus of an exhibition-dossier at the Morgan Library & Museum, curated by John Marciari. The ex...
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Caravaggio in Rome: an ambitious documentary, but with too many simplifications

We receive and publish this review, written by a reader who preferred not to sign himself, on the film Caravaggio in Rome. The Journey of the Jubilee, in Italian theaters from December 1 to 3, 2025. It is a special event that lands in cinemas from D...
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Audio from Andreotti trial pops up on Caravaggio cut into pieces

"The Caravaggio had been destroyed because ... in the way it had been rolled up, when the buyer was later to ... see it, he started crying and it was ... not. it was no longer in a condition to be used." It is in the words of justice collaborator Fra...
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Caravaggio in Rome: the film about the restless genius comes to theaters for three days only

Coming to Italian theaters as a special event for three days only,Dec. 1, 2 and 3, is the docu-film Caravaggio in Rome. The Journey of the Jubilee, directed by Giovanni Piscaglia on a subject by Didi Gnocchi, with screenplay by Eleonora Angius and na...
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In Milan, Friends of Brera kick off a series of lectures on seventeenth-century art history

With the arrival of autumn, Milan is preparing to welcome a new cultural season, marking the return of Storie dell'Arte, a project conceived by the Friends of Brera in collaboration with the City of Milan, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d'Euro...
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