AT PALAZZO BARBERINI FROM MARCH 7TH: CARAVAGGIO 2025
From March 7th, coinciding with the celebrations of the Jubilee 2025, the exhibition Caravaggio 2025 opens at Palazzo Barberini. This grand exhibition project has been organized with the participation of the Galleria Borghese and is also supported by the General Directorate of Museums, the Ministry of Culture, and the Main Partner Intesa Sanpaolo.
The exhibition, running until July 6th, is curated by Francesca Cappelletti, Maria Cristina Terzaghi, and Thomas Clement Salomon. It stands as one of the most important and ambitious projects dedicated to Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610), featuring an exceptional number of his autograph paintings and a journey through works that are rarely seen, alongside new discoveries, in one of the symbolic locations connecting the artist to his patrons.
Bringing together some of Caravaggio’s most famous works, along with others that are lesser-known but equally significant, the exhibition aims to offer a new and in-depth reflection on the artistic and cultural revolution brought about by the Master, exploring for the first time in such a broad context the innovations he introduced in the artistic, religious, and social landscape of his time.
Among the works on display is the Portrait of Maffeo Barberini, recently presented to the public more than sixty years after its rediscovery, now for the first time displayed alongside other paintings by Caravaggio. Also featured is the Ecce Homo, currently exhibited at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, which will return to Italy for the first time in centuries, alongside other exceptional loans such as Saint Catherine from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid—a masterpiece previously in the Barberini collection that will return to the Palazzo that once housed it—and Martha and Mary from the Detroit Institute of Arts, for which the artist used the same model as in the Judith preserved at Palazzo Barberini, all exhibited together for the first time.
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