Edited by Francesca Cappelletti, Maria Cristina Terzaghi.
An unprecedented accumulation of international loans buttresses this showstopping retrospective of the Baroque master's life and legacy
Caravaggio is an Old Master for a modern age. His recent resurgence in popularity owes in no small part to his dramatic compositions, which expose the conflict between salvation and damnation in the souls of each of his subjects, whether biblical saints or streetwise criminals. This exhibition in Rome and its accompanying catalog distinguishes itself through its exceptional loans that reunite and resituate the landmark paintings of Caravaggio's career. Saint Catherine from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Martha and Mary Magdalene from the Detroit Institute of Arts join the Palazzo Barberini Judith, showcasing Caravaggio's use of the same model on three separate occasions; The Cardsharps from the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth returns to the place where it was long on display; Saint John the Baptist from the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City and Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy from the Wadsworth Athaneum in Hartford appear together for the first time. These magnificent and unprecedented selections offer insight not only into Caravaggio's evolution as an artist but also his immediate networks and surroundings. Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571–1610), was born in Milan. His early commissions included works for Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte and the Contarelli Chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi. From 1600 to 1606 he was considered the most famous painter in Rome. After killing a wealthy young man he fled the city, still painting but on the run as a criminal. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1610.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Caravaggio 2025.'
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
The Wall Street Journal
A.J. Goldmann
[The exhibition] is arguably the most comprehensive survey of the artist’s work since the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 1985 blockbuster show 'The Age of Caravaggio,' which included 40 works by, copied from or attributed to the Lombard artist.
The Financial Times
Jackie Wullschläger
In Palazzo Barberini’s magnificent monograph exhibition 'Caravaggio 2025,' two dozen paintings tell the deeply moving story of his brief, revolutionary, fast-changing oeuvre; they include rare loans, unprecedentedly uniting groups of pictures dispersed across continents, and works entirely new to Caravaggio shows.
Hyperallergic
Anthony Majanlahti
[A] parade of marvels.
The New York Times
Jason Farago
Caravaggio gave religious painting the intensity of opera, or maybe soap opera. Yet this rare exhibition allows us to see through the artist’s biography and grasp his view of life: too brief, too violent, yet freighted too with the promise of life everlasting.
The Brooklyn Rail
Phong H. Bui
What is so compelling in confronting any picture by Caravaggio is how it never fails to communicate a strong feeling of human drama, urgency, and anxiety, and how it seems to be suspended in a moment of the kind of immediacy that we feel in lived experience.
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Published by Marsilio Arte. Edited by Francesca Cappelletti, Maria Cristina Terzaghi.
An unprecedented accumulation of international loans buttresses this showstopping retrospective of the Baroque master's life and legacy
Caravaggio is an Old Master for a modern age. His recent resurgence in popularity owes in no small part to his dramatic compositions, which expose the conflict between salvation and damnation in the souls of each of his subjects, whether biblical saints or streetwise criminals.
This exhibition in Rome and its accompanying catalog distinguishes itself through its exceptional loans that reunite and resituate the landmark paintings of Caravaggio's career. Saint Catherine from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Martha and Mary Magdalene from the Detroit Institute of Arts join the Palazzo Barberini Judith, showcasing Caravaggio's use of the same model on three separate occasions; The Cardsharps from the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth returns to the place where it was long on display; Saint John the Baptist from the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City and Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy from the Wadsworth Athaneum in Hartford appear together for the first time. These magnificent and unprecedented selections offer insight not only into Caravaggio's evolution as an artist but also his immediate networks and surroundings.
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571–1610), was born in Milan. His early commissions included works for Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte and the Contarelli Chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi. From 1600 to 1606 he was considered the most famous painter in Rome. After killing a wealthy young man he fled the city, still painting but on the run as a criminal. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1610.
