The exhibition “Caravaggio and followers” opened at the Museum of Fine Arts Pushkin – First Channel

Blades and celebrated the great Italian artists who worked in his manner, first collected in a single exposure.

The canvases of the great and famous Italian artists who worked in his manner, first collected in a single exposure.

He stopped a moment, captured on canvas that sometimes do not notice even the most watchful eye. A moment of emotion, fleeting movement. When Caravaggio wrote the work “Boy bitten by a lizard,” he was barely 20. There’s even a version that is a self-portrait and the artist painted it, look in the mirror.

“This is a work of the young Caravaggio, at a time when he had just formed as an artist. At the moment of his arrival in Rome, when he was still a young artist. But this thing is absolutely a thing of Caravaggio in spirit and style, and emotion, “- said Marina mules.

The picture “Boy bitten by a lizard,” critics called the most unusual in the history of still life paintings of the sixteenth century. Everything is there, what is so fond of Caravaggio: voltage, power, light and shadow, but the main thing – the truth. Take, for fruit. He first decided cherries may be overripe, muddy water in the vase and it seemed against the will of the artist reflected his workshop.

“The mystery of Caravaggio, and this picture is that just being near her, you experience the incredible emotional stress. It is very much” – said the Ambassador of the Italian Republic in the Russian Federation, Cesare Maria Ragalini.

Dark background and brightly flashed the figure, this method works with the light took over the hundreds of followers of Caravaggio. For the first time paintings from Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands gathered in one exhibition. And interestingly, to emulate the great master, they were only after his death.

For the first time in Moscow as five paintings from the series “Apostles”, and in fact, historians less than a year ago identified – they belong to the brush of the main Spanish karavadzhista Husepe Ribera. The famous Gospel story “Peter’s Denial” French painter Valentin endured in contemporary times. But a year later reinterpreted as his work and drew quite different, although on the same subject. Today, both the picture – in the Pushkin Museum.

“The artist takes maturity and if the picture of the story seems to be more illustratively, in this case, he interprets the story as a drama, witnesses and participants that are not only the characters of the Gospel legends but figures that the plot to it are not relevant, “- said curator Victoria Markova.

Most of the paintings – from the collection of Roberto Longhi, a unique collector with a rare intuition, which at one time from oblivion returned the name of Caravaggio.

“The meeting Longhi so many great pictures that show how that came up with Caravaggio, the new world, which he in general has opened for art, he enriched the whole of Europe” – says Irina Antonova.

The exhibition “Caravaggio and followers” will last until January 10. In the museum we are sure that it will repeat the success of the one that created a furor in 2011 when to see Caravaggio, people despite the rain and slush all day were willing to stand in long lines at the Pushkin Museum.

Christine Leviev

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