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from Saturday, June 23 to Sunday, October 14, 2012 - Caravaggio and His European Followers
Author : FRAME


The Los Angeles County Museum and the Wadsworth Atheneum in conjunction with the Musée Fabre, Montpellier and the Musée des Augustins, Toulouse are co-organizing and presenting an exhibition devoted to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) and the impact that his revolutionary art had on art in Italy and throughout Europe.
The Los Angeles County Museum and the Wadsworth Atheneum in conjunction with the Musée Fabre, Montpellier and the Musée des Augustins, Toulouse are co-organizing and presenting an exhibition devoted to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) and the impact that his revolutionary art had on art in Italy and throughout Europe. The exhibition will open simultaneously in June 2012 at the two French museums split between Italian/French and Northern followers and then will move in a condensed version to Los Angeles in November 2012. It is scheduled to open in Hartford in March of 2013. Both the Wadsworth Atheneum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are in special positions to help organize and participate in this project; The Wadsworth Atheneum was the first American Museum to purchase an authentic painting by Caravaggio (the great Ecstasy of St. Francis acquired in 1944) and it has added a great many works by his followers and imitators in Italy, Holland, Flanders, and France, such as Gentileschi, Saraceni, Riminaldi, Ribera, Zurbarán and Sweerts (as indicated on the enclosed checklist). In recent years, the Los Angeles County Museum has acquired an important group of Caravaggesque paintings by Saraceni, Baglione, and Valentin to name but a few.

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