Caravaggio and the 20th Century at the Villa Bardini
June 5 2025
Picture: Villa Bardini
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
I'm very slow to news that the Villa Bardini in Florence opened an interesting exhibition earlier this year dedicated to Caravaggio scholarship in the 20th century.
According to their website:
A new exhibition in Villa Bardini allows visitors to admire major masterpieces and previously unpublished material associated with the figures of art historian Roberto Longhi and writer and translator Anna Banti, who “revolutionised” art history with the rediscovery of Caravaggio and Italian art of the 17th century. [...]
The exhibition showcases such masterpieces as Caravaggio’s Boy Bitten by a Lizard, Jusepe de Ribera’s Apostles and a moving sequence of ten small Morandis created by the Bologna-born artist and gifted to Roberto Longhi and Anna Banti on various different occasions in the course of their friendship.
