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Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy

Resnick Pavilion
November 11, 2012–February 10, 2013
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Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy introduces the work of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), one of the most popular artists of the past, rivaling in fame both Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. The stories of Caravaggio's life are legend, more myth than history, describing traits of personality, including passion and brutality, that came to describe the unique qualities of his work. The exhibition, made up of 56 works in all, including a record eight works by Caravaggio himself, covers the evolution of his style. Caravaggio's legacy is expressed in work by about twenty artists from Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands who carried into the late 17th century the strangeness, beauty and raw emotion of his work.

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Exhibition organized by LACMA, the Musée Fabre de Montpellier Agglomération, the Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, under the auspices of FRAME (French Regional  American Museum Exchange). Los Angeles presentation made possible by The Ahmanson Foundation. With support from FRAME, the national tour was made possible in part by Sotheby’s, the Annenberg Foundation/GRoW Annenberg, the Robert Lehman Foundation, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. The exhibition is presented under the auspices of 2013: Year of Italian Culture. Installation designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects. Image: Caravaggio, Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, 1604-1605, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Trust.

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Portrait of Maffeo Barberini
1596–1597
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Portrait of Maffeo Barberini
1596–1597

Oil on canvas

47 5/8 x 37 3/8 in. (121 x 95 cm)

Private Collection, Italy

Photo courtesy of Private Collection

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Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
1595
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Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
1595

Oil on canvas

36 3/8 x 50 1/4 in. (92.4 x 127.6 cm); Frame: 48 x 62 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund.

Image: © Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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The Holy Family in Saint Joseph's Workshop
Carlo Saraceni
circa 1615
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The Holy Family in Saint Joseph's Workshop
Carlo Saraceni
circa 1615

Oil on canvas

44 5/8 x 33 3/16 in. (113.3 x 84 cm); Frame: 56 1/4 x 44 7/8 x 3 1/4 in. (142.9 x 114 x 8.3 cm)

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund

Photo © Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame
Georges de La Tour
circa 1638–1640
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The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame
Georges de La Tour
circa 1638–1640

 

Oil on canvas

46 1/16 x 36 1/8 in. (117 x 91.76 cm)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation

Photo © 2012 Museum Associates/ LACMA

Artist Sandow Birk on Caravaggio

Artist Sandow Birk discusses Caravaggio's influence on his work.

Thoughts on Caravaggio and His Legacy

This Sunday, we open Bodies and Shadow: Caravaggio and His Legacy. Members see it first, with exclusive preview days this Thursday through Saturday. The multimedia tour of the exhibition includes an interview with Keith Christiansen, Chairman of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

Caravaggio in Our Time

Opening Sunday (member previews start today), Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy is a major exploration of the “Caravaggisti”—a generation of diverse painters throughout Europe in the seventeenth century that was influenced by Caravaggio’s style...

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The Art of Wine
6:00PM Saturday, December 1
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Caravaggio and Baroque Painting
9:30AM Friday, December 7
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