The Last Caravaggio
Caravaggio’s last painting, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (1610, Gallerie d’Italia, Naples), is coming to London for the first time in 20 years.
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Caravaggio
The Last Caravaggio National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, as both a revolutionary artist and a violent individual in a violent age, divides eras and opinions.
22 April 2024
More Sackler Pain at Harvard – Damien Hirst’s 9 Day £20m Windfall -Texas Princess Evicted In Rome
News In Brief: Harvard Students have been protesting at the University’s Arthur M. Sackler Museum….
24 April 2023
Venice To London May 2022 Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Several exhibitions/installations in Venice during the 59th Biennale re-situate key works or themes from Christianity’s historic engagement with the Arts, in some cases overlaying biblical narrative onto the present.
3 May 2022
National Gallery Re-Opening What to Expect – Edward Lucie-Smith
The National Gallery is re-opening its doors, somewhat in advance of the Tates. The Titian show of mythological paintings made for Philp II of Spain is once again available, though it isn’t continuing on to Scotland.
8 July 2020
Great Artworks Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
This is a new series by Artist/historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content is produced.
1 June 2020
Caravaggio / Bernini: Baroque Wonderment Vivacity And Horror – Sue Hubbard
Most great artistic movements begin as a reaction to the art and times that precede them. Impressionism in the 19th century. Surrealism, Dadaism and the YBAs in the 20th c. Baroque began in Rome around 1600 in response to the austere 17th-century Protestant culture of the Netherlands.
15 February 2020
Vienna’s Spectacular Exhibitions Of Durer, Caravaggio and Bernini – Paul Carter Robinson
Vienna knows how to produce a blockbuster, and this Autumn/Winter season they have mounted two. For the first time in nearly twenty years, a new exhibition of Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) has opened at Vienna’s Albertina Museum, while a beautifully curated show bookends this at the Kunsthistorisches Museum entitled Caravaggio and Bernini.
4 December 2019
Lost Caravaggio Judith: Is This Painting Another Salvator Mundi?
A long lost painting attributed to Caravaggio which languished in a chateau attic in France for over 100 years is touring art market capitals and then going under the hammer at La Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, in June.
3 March 2019
Was Caravaggio A Good Christian? By Revd Jonathan Evens St Stephen Walbrook
Caravaggio – “What a man! What a painter, but what a man and what a believer.” Those are the words of… Read More
6 November 2016
Caravaggio Revealed At Centre Of Wildenstein Money-laundering Trial
Whilst a major exhibition by the Italian Renaissance painter Caravaggio prepares to launch at the National Gallery in London, the Wildenstein money-laundering trial involving a key painting by Caravaggio continues in Paris. The Painting which is now in storage in Switzerland complicates issues around the estate of Daniel Wildenstein, Guy Wildenstein’s father.
12 October 2016
Caravaggio Misattribution Lawsuit: Court Clears Sotheby’s Of Professional Negligence
The court case involving a painting by the Italian baroque master Caravaggio, which Sotheby’s sold for a fraction of its… Read More
17 January 2015
Caravaggio Painting Takes Centerstage At Christie’s Old Masters Sale
One of the earliest example of a painting by Caravaggio titled, ‘Boy Peeling a Fruit’ dating from 1591 will go… Read More
2 January 2015
New Caravaggio Masterpiece Found – Claims Italian Art Historian
It would seem that the long-lost original of Caravaggio’s ‘Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy’ has been identified by one of the… Read More
27 October 2014
Sotheby’s In High Court Over Alleged Misattribution Of Caravaggio
A highly contentious dispute has some of the world’s most prominent Caravaggio experts lining up to take sides in high… Read More
27 October 2014