Lost for centuries, 1606 Caravaggio will travel to India
Believed to have been lost for centuries and rediscovered in 2014 in a private collection, Italian baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy is now travelling to India. It will be unveiled at the Italian Cultural Centre in the presence of Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, during his visit to New Delhi later this week.
From April 17 to May 18, it will be on view at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Saket. “It’s the first time for a Caravaggio painting in India. This landmark exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience the mastery of one of the Baroque era’s most influential artists. Caravaggio upended the traditional canons of his time, introducing in his works models from real life and a cinematic lighting,” stated Italian Ambassador to I...