Caravaggio 2025 Marsilio Arte

Edited by Francesca Cappelletti, Maria Cristina Terzaghi.

This Rome exhibition and catalog present a major Caravaggio retrospective built on unprecedented international loans that reunite key works from across his career. By bringing together landmark paintings—some shown side by side for the first time—the show reveals Caravaggio’s artistic evolution, his use of recurring models, and his social networks. It also situates his dramatic, psychologically intense style within the turbulent life of the Baroque master, from his rise to fame in Rome to his exile and mysterious death. This exhibition in Rome and its accompanying catalog distinguishes itself through its exceptional loans that reunite and resituate the landmark paintings of Caravaggio's career. Saint Catherine from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Martha and Mary Magdalene from the Detroit Institute of Arts join the Palazzo Barberini Judith, showcasing Caravaggio's use of the same model on three separate occasions; The Cardsharps from the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth returns to the place where it was long on display; Saint John the Baptist from the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City and Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy from the Wadsworth Athaneum in Hartford appear together for the first time.

An unprecedented accumulation of international loans buttresses this showstopping retrospective of the Baroque master's life and legacy

Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 285 color.

MARSILIO ARTE, 8/19/2025

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