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| The Crowning with Thorns (detail; c. 1603), Caravaggio. Photo: © KHM-Museumsverband |
Caravaggio and
Bernini defined the dramatic realism of the early Roman baroque in their respective mediums of painting and sculpture. This display is the first to focus on the two artists together; it also looks at their influence on contemporaries such as Guido Reni and Artemisia Gentileschi.
Find out more from the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s website. ‘You were made for Rome,’ Pope Urban VIII once said to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, ‘and Rome for you.’ Born in Naples in 1598, he moved with his family to the Eternal City in 1606, by which time Caravaggio’s extravagant dramatic realism had made him the most famous artist in the city. [
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| Massacre of the Innocents (1611), Guido Reni. Photo: © Poilo Museale del’Emilia-Romagna |
