Caravaggio Exhibition Opens at Musei Capitolini with Roberto Longhi Collection
The Musei Capitolini in Rome reopen with a major exhibition titled 'Il tempo di Caravaggio. Capolavori della collezione di Roberto Longhi', curated by Maria Cristina Bandera, scientific director of the Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte Roberto Longhi in Florence. The show features over 40 works from Longhi's collection, including Caravaggio's 'Ragazzo morso da un ramarro' (1596-1597), which returned from Amsterdam. The exhibition honors Longhi 50 years after his death and includes works by Caravaggio's followers such as Jusepe de Ribera, Valentin de Boulogne, Gerrit van Honthorst, and Mattia Preti. Longhi, born in Alba in 1890, studied under Pietro Toesca at the University of Turin, writing his thesis on Caravaggio in 1911. He organized a landmark Caravaggio exhibition at Palazzo Reale in Milan in 1951, which attracted 500,000 visitors. The current exhibition was set up just before the lockdown and reopened with safety measures. It is structured around Longhi's scholarly approach, featuring his quotes and covering the artistic climate of Lombard and Venetian Mannerism.
Key facts
- Musei Capitolini in Rome reopen with Caravaggio exhibition
- Exhibition titled 'Il tempo di Caravaggio. Capolavori della collezione di Roberto Longhi'
- Curated by Maria Cristina Bandera, scientific director of Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte Roberto Longhi
- Over 40 works from Longhi's collection on display
- Includes Caravaggio's 'Ragazzo morso da un ramarro' (1596-1597) returned from Amsterdam
- Exhibition honors Roberto Longhi 50 years after his death
- Longhi was born in Alba in 1890, studied under Pietro Toesca at University of Turin
- Longhi organized 1951 Caravaggio exhibition at Palazzo Reale, Milan with 500,000 visitors
Entities
Artists
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
- Roberto Longhi
- Lorenzo Lotto
- Battista del Moro
- Bartolomeo Passarotti
- Carlo Saraceni
- Angelo Caroselli
- Guglielmo Caccia (Moncalvo)
- Domenico Fetti
- Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (Morazzone)
- Jusepe de Ribera
- Battistello Caracciolo
- Valentin de Boulogne
- Gerrit van Honthorst
- Dirck van Baburen
- Matthias Stom
- Viviano Codazzi
- Filippo Napoletano
- Bernardo Strozzi
- Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari
- Gioacchino Assereto
- Andrea Vaccaro
- Giovanni Antonio Molineri
- Giuseppe Caletti
- Carlo Ceresa
- Pietro Vecchia
- Francesco Cairo
- Monsù Bernardo
- Mattia Preti
- Giacinto Brandi
- Pietro Toesca
- Anna Banti
- Lucia Lopresti
- Giorgio Morandi
- Vittore Carpaccio
- Carlo Carrà
- Giuseppe Ungaretti
- Giorgio Bassani
- Vasco Pratolini
- Carlo Emilio Gadda
- Enrico Pea
- Piero Bigongiari
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Filippo de Pisis
- Socrate
- Renato Guttuso
- Antonietta Raphaël Mafai
Institutions
- Musei Capitolini
- Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte Roberto Longhi
- Palazzo Reale (Milan)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museo del Louvre
- University of Turin
- Liceo Govone (Modena)
- Villa Bardini
- Fondazione CR Firenze
- Fondazione Longhi
- Villa Il Tasso
- Palazzo Reale di Milano
- Palazzo Barberini
Locations
- Rome
- Italy
- Florence
- Alba
- Modena
- Turin
- Milan
- Amsterdam
- New York
- Paris