Caravaggio exhibition


To sign up or review Caravaggio Ask Me shifts, here is a link to the sign-up:

Sign up sheet for Caravaggio Ask Me shifts

 

Here are the videos of Rachel McGarry’s in-gallery training on 4.18.23:

Caravaggio Part 1

Caravaggio Part 2

 

Here are the panels:

CUR231906_Caravaggio_Intro_Texts_V3

Here are the labels:

EUR231905_Caravaggio_Wall_Labels_V4

 

Additional collection connections:

Essential Characteristics of Baroque Art

Council of Trent and Catholic Reformation

 

Research resources:

Barberini: CARAVAGGIO (MICHELANGELO MERISI) (MILAN 1571 – PORTO ERCOLE 1610): Judith Beheading Holofernes

Biography of Caravaggio on The Art Story

Biography from the National Gallery, UK

From Khan Academy, a great article that discusses his influence: Caravaggio and Caravaggisti in 17th-Century Europe

The story of Beatrice Cenci (mentioned by Rachel)

Sebastian Schütze, Caravaggio: The Complete Works (Taschen)

Catherine Puglisi, Caravaggio (Phaidon)

Helen Langdon, Caravaggio: A Life (Farrar Straus & Giroux)

Guilio Mancini, Lives of Caravaggio (J. Paul Getty Museum)

Rosella Vodret, ed., Caravaggio The Complete Works (Silvana Editoriale)

Andrew Graham-Dixon, Caravaggio: A Life Sacred & Profane (W. W. Norton & Company)

Related books of interest:

Letizia Treves, Artemisia (National Gallery of London)

Mary D. Garrard, Artemisia Gentileschi (Princeton University Press)

Ludovica Rambelli’s Malatheatre Theater Company Caravaggio staging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIeyulbiB0A&t=11s

 

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