A total of 24 masterworks by
Caravaggio will be showcased at Rome's Palazzo Barberini from
Friday until July 6.
With a total of 60,000 tickets sold prior to its opening, the
exhibit 'Caravaggio 2025' at Palazzo Barberini's Gallerie
Nazionali is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of
visitors.
It is curated by Francesca Cappelletti, Maria Cristina Terzaghi
and Thomas Clement Salomon.
The masterpieces on display include the newfound Portrait of
Maffeo Barberini, which was showcased for the first time only a
few months ago; Ecce Homo, currently displayed at the Museo
Nacional del Prado in Madrid which returns to Italy from Spain
after four centuries; two St John the Baptist paintings that
will be showcased for the first time on the same wall.
Also on display will be he Saint Catherine of Alexandria from
the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, a masterpiece that was
once part the Barberini collection and Martha and Mary Magdalene
from the Detroit Institute of Arts.
"Each painting by Caravaggio is a star and each loan is an
extradition", said the director of Palazzo Barberini, Thomas
Clement Salomon.
Clement Salomon said the exhibit represents a "dream" for him
which was organized "in record time, just a year".
The director of the Borghese Gallery Francesca Cappelletti said
the exhibit featured "exceptional loans" such as the David with
the Head of Goliath.
The star show of the Jubilee Year will also include the
possibility of visiting a 25th masterwork by Caravaggio, his
only mural painting - Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto (1597) - at the
Casino dell'Aurora, in a rarite occasion, the organizers said.
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