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Caravaggio: The Final Years

Edited by Silvia Cassani & Maria Sapio
October 2005
Electa Napoli
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
9788851002640
192 Pages, Illustrated. 9 3/4 x 11"
$79.50 Paper

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The first significant exhibition on Caravaggio (1571-1610), the most original and influential Italian painter of the 17th Century, and a modern icon is to be held at the National gallery, London. The exhibition will trace the final four years of Caravaggio’s career and will include 15 major paintings by the artist.

These works, which are far less known than those of his Roman years will allow Caravaggio’s profound late style to be fully appreciated for the first time. The exhibition will begin with the National Gallery’s Supper at Emmaus, painted in 1601, which will be shown alongside the haunting rendition of the same subject from the Brera Gallery, Milan, made in 1606, just after the artist fled Rome.

This comparison will forcefully demonstrate how Caravaggio’s bold, youthful theatricality was transformed into the more sober, hushed, and emotionally expressive mood of his later work. Following his escape from Rome, his art quickly matured and became more introspective as he probed the emotional and psychological dimensions of his subjects more profoundly and with greater sympathy than ever before.

Exhibition schedule
National Gallery, London. 23rd February – 22nd May 2005


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