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Item Number: 111784
Title: CARAVAGGIO a Roma : una vita dal vero
Author: Di Sivo, Michele ; Orietta Verdi
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788865570098
Description: Roma: De Luca, 2011. 28cm., pbk., 295pp., 40 color, numerous b&w illus. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: Among the initiatives organised for the fourth centenary of the death of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the state archives display original documents covering the years that Caravaggio spent in Rome (1595/96-1606). Over 30 restored volumes reveal central episodes and news about the private life and artistic career of the great painter. On display are original and unpublished documents, which testify to the arrival of Caravaggio in the capital at the age of 25 and not 20 as believed so far, and his lodging in Via della Scrofa at the shop of Lorenzo Carli, a Sicilian painter. These until-now unknown details centre on the intellectual, cultural and artistic environment frequented by Caravaggio in Rome, which throw new light on his life. This survey, conducted by seven young art historians, isa sort of detective story in a succession of anecdotes, testimonials, reconstructions by registers, protocols, complaints, trials, topographic plans and tenancy contracts. From these documents emerges a unique period of Caravaggio's life characterised by key encounters in a kaleidoscope of relationships. Original documents are placed next to some of Caravaggio's masterpieces as well as works by other artists of the time. Particularly meaningful is the choice to hold this exhibition close to the church of S. Ivo alla Sapienza, built by Francesco Borromini between 1642 and 1660, where many of the narrated events took place. (Archivio di Stato di Roma)
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