Caravaggio in Holland
dal 31/3/2009 al 25/7/2009
Segnalato da
31/3/2009
Caravaggio in Holland
Stadel Museum, Frankfurt
Music and Genre in the Paintings of Caravaggio and the Utrecht Caravaggists. An exquisite selection of paintings by Caravaggio are juxtaposed with music and genre scenes by Dirck van Baburen, Gerard van Honthorst and Hendrick Terbrugghen. Some forty masterworks, including the famous Lute Player - the quintessential Baroque musician scene -, will provide insight into the Utrecht painters' intensive exploration of the art of Caravaggio and his Italian contemporaries. In the mirror of his reception in Holland, Caravaggio himself will also appear in a new light.
Curators: Prof. Dr. Jochen Sander, Dr. Bastian Eclercy, Gabriel Dette (Städel Museum)
Caravaggio in Holland? No, the founder of Roman Baroque painting never journeyed to the Netherlands. On the contrary, a group of painters from the Dutch city of Utrecht set out for Rome with the aim of studying Caravaggio’s spectacular chiaroscuro painting with their own eyes. The exhibition will present works by Caravaggio himself and by the so-called Utrecht Caravaggists, who enthusiastically adopted the new pictorial language developed by their idol, varied it and developed it further.
An exquisite selection of paintings by Caravaggio will be juxtaposed with music and genre scenes by Dirck van Baburen, Gerard van Honthorst and Hendrick Terbrugghen. Some forty masterworks, including the famous Lute Player – the quintessential Baroque musician scene –, will provide insight into the Utrecht painters’ intensive exploration of the art of Caravaggio and his Italian contemporaries. In the mirror of his reception in Holland, Caravaggio himself will also appear in a new light.
Sponsored by: Stiftung Flughafen Frankfurt/Main für die Region
Media Partners: Frankfurter Rundschau, Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main
Cultural Partner: hr2-Kultur
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