Painting: Ecce homo (Behold the Man) by Caravaggio (1573-1610)
Three years after its exhibition devoted to the Italian Renaissance which attracted more than 200,000 visitors, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest is hosting an exhibition celebrating 17th- and 18th- century Italian art.
Named “Caravaggio to Canaletto,” it features 140 works by 100 masters, including nine of Caravaggio's greatest. 34 works from the Italian Baroque and Rococo collection of the museum's Old Masters' Gallery are complemented by 106 masterpieces on loan from 62 collections of 11 countries, many from the Uffizi, Louvre and Prado.
Caravaggio’s scandalous “Boy with a Basket of Fruit” (on loan from the Galleria Borghese in Rome) opens the exhibit. Other paintings on show by Caravaggio are “Ecce Homo” (Behold the Man), “Saint Francis in Prayer” and “Salome with the Head of John the Baptist.”
One section showcases the Bolognese school of classic Baroque linked to the names of Ludovico, Agostino and Annibale Carracci.
Rounding off the exhibition are four paintings by Canaletto, the most celebrated view painter of 18th-century Venice; they include “St. Mark’s Square” and “Schiavoni,” which capture the city's decadent splendor.
"Caravaggio to Canaletto" closes February 16, 2014.
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