Caravaggio

Overview

A great exhibit, to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the death of this great artist. A unique chance to admire some of the most representative works of the artist from Lombardia and that will be an homage to Caravaggio's uniqueness at the end of the year dedicated to his celebrations.

Tour details

Roma, Scuderie del Quirinale
Via XXVI Maggio, 16

How to reach: underground: line A (Repubblica stop), line B (Cavour stop) bus: 16-170-36-360-37-38-40-60-61-62-64-70-H

From February 18th to June 13th 2010; Monday to Friday 9:00am – 6:00pm; Saturday 9:00am – 2:00pm. Last admission one hour before closing time.

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Details

The exhibition, held under the high patronage of the President of the Republic, has been organized jointly by the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo - Scuderie del Quirinale and the Special Superintendency for Artistic, Historical and Ethno-anthropological Heritage and for the City of Rome Museum Pole as part of the celebrations marking the fourth centenary of the great artist's death.

The exhibition project presented here, in what we prefer to describe as an overall rationale or declaration of intent, sets out to draw the attention of public and critics alike back to the renowned, and universally acclaimed "Lombard genius," but from a radically innovative, up-to-date perspective.

The huge wealth of research studies and papers on Caravaggio's life and artistic career - not to mention the large number of exhibitions revolving around his name - has, over recent years, confirmed the widespread, constant and mounting interest for the restless pioneering role he played, so much so as to build up to an impelling spur for a fresh, ambitious - albeit basically "simple" - exhibition initiative.

The exhibition's curator has thus chosen a rigorous philological approach, designed to create a synthetic, rather than an anthological, path through his production, albeit one based on the presentation of "capital" works. In the light of the foregoing, it will be clear that we aim to present a selection of the Lombard artist's most representative works, which, duly contextualized, will pay tribute to the uniqueness of Caravaggio, bringing the year dedicated to his celebration to a fitting conclusion.

By drawing on the literary sources and the immense volume of documentary material collected and systematically updated first by Mia Cinotti, from 1971 to 1983, and subsequently by Stefania Macioce, in 2003, and continuously increased up to the present day, it has been possible to conduct a rigorous critical appraisal of the paintings, their precise chronological dating, their provenance and the original and subsequent settings by tracing their various changes of ownership.
Other documents, regarding relations between Caravaggio and both his patrons and the leading figures of his day, have formed a basis for an in-depth critical analysis of the painter in cultural terms and in terms of the intrinsic value of his complex body of works.

The decision to give pride of place to paintings of certain authorship has resulted in the exclusion of the output variously attributed to his "studio" - a highly inappropriate term when used in connection with Caravaggio's working method; "further versions" have likewise been relegated to the sidelines, or perhaps it would be truer to say that they have been left in abeyance for the time being, along with the issues the critics have repeatedly debated, and will probably continue to debate usque ad infinitum, with often differing views.

There thus emerges a consistent and substantiated overview that casts a new light on the various steps in the evolution of Caravaggio's expressive language, all of which took place deep below the surface, and throws the exceptionality and uniqueness of his work into relief.

The exhibition thus sets out to provide a new, impassioned focus for critical review and to make a further attempt to penetrate the essence of the painter's "awesomely natural" art: its revolutionary, radical naturalism, its stubborn, albeit dialectic, deference to the real, which cannot be reduced to formulae and schools and which stands alone in its greatness and its poetry.

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Tickets:

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Reduced: persons until 26 and over 65 years old, teachers, police force, soldiers, reserved groups of min 12 persons from Mondays to Fridays (except holidays), holder ticket Ottocento,

Free: children under 6 years old, journalists, disabled persons and invalids (and accompanist), ICOM and ICCROM members, one accompanist for reserved group, one accompanist every 10 pupils, tour guides Regione Lazio, tour group leaders Regione Lazio, tour interpreters needed to accompany guides

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