“The Lights of Caravaggio” are on in Timisoara
An outstanding exhibition draws Caravaggio aficionados and art lovers at the National Art Museum in Timisoara.
Eugen Cojocariu, 18.11.2024, 15:18
“The Lights of Caravaggio: The Beginning of Modernity in European Painting – Masterpieces from the Roberto Longhi Collection” opened its doors at the National Art Museum in Timisoara, on November 16.
The exhibition evolves around Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s incredible and revolutionary style, showcasing not only his dramatic interplay of light and shadow, the strong contrasts between light and dark, but also the Italian master’s influence on other painters and his contribution to European art.
It brings together no less than 43 artworks by 33 painters, having Caravaggio’s work “Boy Bitten by a Lizard”, painted in 1597, as centerpiece.
Present at the opening of the exhibition in Timisoara, RRI’s Eugen Cojocariu has had a talk with the Italian Ambassador to Bucharest, H.E. Alfredo Durante Mangoni, on this exhibition that is “meant to shine a light on Caravaggio”.
