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Two dozen Caravaggio paintings from museums and private collectors across the world are on display in Rome's Palazzo ...
“Caravaggio must have been thinking about The Taking of Christ just before he died,” Campbell concludes. Caravaggio 2025 is at Palazzo Barberini , in Rome, until July 6th ...
But more than biography, it's Caravaggio's style that gets somehow fresher with age. He evokes intense and particular human presences, but at the same time a mirror world that is pure image, pure ...
In this section we can see the National Gallery of Ireland’s “The Taking of Christ” (1602), surely one of Caravaggio’s most beautiful pictures, traced through diligent archival research by ...
The Palazzo Barberini sold more than 350,000 entry tickets in the first two months of the show, a record. Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi in Milan in September 1571, is a superstar.
In the painting, Christ enters the room from the right. We see only his silhouetted head and outstretched arm pointing in Matthew’s direction. The ‘Calling of Saint Matthew,’ by Caravaggio.
The Madrid court will now review the evidence from the Prado's assessment of the painting. Last year, another Ecce Homo painting authenticated by the Prado as a genuine Caravaggio, sold for $39 ...
An example is The Capture of Christ, on loan for the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition from the National Gallery in Dublin. “It’s a stunning painting. You feel as if you’re inside the scene, ...
Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ, 1602. On indefinite loan to the National Gallery of Ireland from the Jesuit Community, Leeson St, Dublin, who acknowledge the kind generosity of the late Dr ...
Why ‘The Calling of Saint Matthew’ by Caravaggio was Pope Francis’ favorite painting − an art historian explains By Virginia Raguin , College of the Holy Cross May 6, 2025 ...
In the painting, Christ enters the room from the right. We see only his silhouetted head and outstretched arm pointing in Matthew’s direction. The ‘Calling of Saint Matthew,’ by Caravaggio.