Michelangelo Merisi, or Merighi or Amerighi, known as Caravaggio (Milan, September 29, 1571-Porto Ercole, July 18, 1610) is considered the first great painter of a member of the school baroccae more celebrated painters of the world. Sick with malaria, with a difficult, often fleeing to escape a death sentence issued by a court in Rome for the murder of Ranuccio Tommasoni, the painter "cursed" ended his short life (39 years) of nell'ospdale St. Mary Help of Porto Ercole.
actually had lost track of the mortal remains of Caravaggio, but on 21 December 2009 a group of researchers coordinated by journalist and researcher Silvano Vinceti have found in the cemetery of Porto Ercole a pile of bone remains from the old cemetery of St. Sebastian , which when tested with carbon 14 and other even more sophisticated analysis, will confirm whether or not the allocation
2010 and then celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of the artist and Florence will be held from May 22 to Oct. 17 at the Galleria Palatina in Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi Gallery, the exhibition "Caravaggio and Caravaggio in Florence." Exposure of Caravaggio masterpiece of a movement to which the Medici family and the great attention devoted passionate. From those first dazzling paintings of Caravaggio Cardinal Del Monte gave the Grand Duke Ferdinando I - the Medusa and the Bacchus - arrived in Florence paintings and painters who made the city a "capital Caravaggio." Exhibition of masterpieces of Caravaggio, powerful paintings, images of dark interior Hand of Gentileschi, Honthorst, Stomer and many other Italian and foreign.
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