Caravaggio’s masterpieces make a triumphant return to Rome for Caravaggio 2025, a landmark exhibition at Palazzo Barberini that reunites 24 extraordinary works, some unseen in Italy for centuries.
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00:20There is a lot to discover about Caravaggio, we have not yet found all the famous paintings that the sources tell us about, and there are also gaps in his history, in the documentary history, in the possibility of reconstructing both the biography and, for example, the exhorts.
00:41For us, Caravaggio is a painter who begins in Rome, but instead certainly arrives in Rome as an artist who had already practiced painting in Lombardy, and of all this first period we have not yet any work.
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01:16It is an exceptional exhibition, very rich in masterpieces, it gives the possibility of seeing works that were perhaps close, but at the beginning of the 20th century, which then took very different paths.
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