Caravaggio and How to Find Him

Description

The great fascination that Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio still exerts on viewers makes it possible to tell his story in a way that illuminates all the Italian and European art-historical events between the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In these years, Rome was city that attracted a large number of young artists, who came from all over Europe. In Rome, the young Michelangelo, Lombard by birth and training, found himself thrown into an environment full of novelty and of rivalry, but one in which he would find faithful friends and passionate patrons, and, above all, would become himself, the great arbiter of naturalism that the twentieth century would rediscover and define. The Borghese Gallery recounts his entire life in one room: from his youthful paintings to his success as a painter of altarpieces to his last tragic events.