News Focus Ancient art Caravaggio Six hundred
A previously unpublished painting in a private collection abroad has been attributed to Caravaggio: it is believed to be a depiction of Demosthenes, specifically the “toga-clad orator”—that is,the orator whom, according to…
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Works and artists Ancient art Caravaggio Six hundred
While historiography on Caravaggio’s*Saint Francis* has struggled to find its bearings, it is in *The Arrest of Christ* that the house of cards of bureaucratic exegesis collapses spectacularly under the weight of geometry. Documents…
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A flash flood struck Florence early this afternoon , with some weather stations recording more than 45 millimeters of rain in one hour. The violent storm also affected the Uffizi Gallery, where water seeped in beneath the skylight in the…
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Works and artists Ancient art Caravaggio Six hundred
Consider the complex, tumultuous history of *St. Francis in Meditation*. It was the year 1922 when attorney Angelo Cecconi (an eccentric Tuscan collector who had made Rome his home, a man with a keen eye and himself the author of…
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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…
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Works and artists Ancient art Caravaggio Six hundred
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…
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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…
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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…
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