{"id":8477,"date":"2024-01-24T16:13:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=8477"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:13:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:13:53","slug":"toledo-museum-of-art-pairs-works-by-caravaggio-with-paintings-from-the-permanent-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/24\/toledo-museum-of-art-pairs-works-by-caravaggio-with-paintings-from-the-permanent-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Toledo Museum of Art pairs works by Caravaggio with paintings from the permanent collection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe Cardsharps\u201d ca. 1595 Oil on canvas, 37 1\/16 x 51 9\/16 inches (94.2 x 130.9 cm)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The exhibition will bring together four Caravaggio paintings in the U.S. for the first time in more than a decade
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TOLEDO, Jan. 19, 2024: The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA)<\/em> will present four paintings by Caravaggio<\/em> in conversation with works from the Museum\u2019s permanent collection in The Brilliance of Caravaggio: Four Paintings in Focus<\/em>, on view Jan. 20-April 14, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n

The exhibition marks the first time in more than a decade that four paintings by this renowned Italian artist have been on view together in the United States and only the second showing ever of Caravaggio\u2019s work at the Toledo Museum of Art. A single composition by the artist was shown at the Museum in 1951.<\/p>\n

Caravaggio\u2019s theatrical works will appear alongside examples of paintings by Italian, French, Dutch and Spanish artists from TMA\u2019s collection to demonstrate the breadth and intensity of his influence. \u201cIt is both an honor and a joy to present visitors, new and frequent, with these gems from the brush of one of the greatest painters who ever lived,\u201d said Lawrence W. <\/em>Nichols<\/em>, the exhibition curator and TMA\u2019s former William Hutton<\/em> senior curator of European and US-American paintings and sculpture before 1900. \u201cThe extremely rare opportunity to dwell with the spellbinding art of Caravaggio will simultaneously afford our institution the occasion to showcase our extensive holdings of paintings by so-called Caravaggisti,<\/em> artists who sought to emulate his compelling realism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Martha and Mary Magdalene
*oil and tempera on canvas *97.8 x 132.7 cm *circa 1598<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Caravaggio paintings featured in the exhibition will include genre scenes and Christian saints, all produced in the 1590s in the initial years after the artist\u2019s arrival in Rome. The <\/em>Cardsharps<\/em> (ca. 1595), one of Caravaggio\u2019s most highly regarded endeavors, presents players engaged in a game of primero \u2014 a precursor of poker \u2014 in which deceit prevails. It was acquired by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte,<\/em> who would provide Caravaggio quarters in his palace. This set the stage for the artist to work in a public forum. The painting inspired other artists to create works that highlight related themes.<\/p>\n

Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy<\/em> (ca. 1595-96), Caravaggio\u2019s first religious painting, presents the 13th-century saint\u2019s vision of his miraculously receiving the signs of the stigmata, the wounds left in Christ\u2019s body by the Crucifixion. The nocturnal scene includes an angel that offers spiritual comfort to the recumbent saint. The Musicians<\/em> (1597) and Martha and Mary Magdalene<\/em> (ca. 1598) are also among Caravaggio\u2019s paintings on view.<\/p>\n

The paintings from TMA\u2019s collection on display reflect the stimulus that Caravaggio provided to his contemporaries. Valentin de Boulogne\u2019s Fortune-Teller with Soldiers<\/em> (ca. 1620) features a lively scene of soldiers drinking while one has his fortune told \u2014 and his ring stolen \u2014 by a fortune teller. Hendrik ter Brugghen<\/em>, whose The Supper at Emmaus <\/em>(1616) will appear in the exhibition, was a leading Dutch painter of religious subjects in the Caravaggesque style. He used dramatic contrasts of light and shade inspired by Caravaggio. Other works from the permanent collection will include Artemesia Gentileschi\u2019s Lot and his Daughters <\/em>(ca. 1636-1638) and Jusepe de Ribera\u2019s Portrait of a Musician <\/em>(1638).<\/p>\n

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The Musicians. Ca. 1595. Oil on canvas, 36 1\/4 x 46 5\/8 in. (92.1 x 118.4 cm). Rogers Fund, 1952 (52.81).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Caravaggio paintings on view are on loan from the Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, Texas), the Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, Conn.), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and the Detroit Institute of Art (Detroit).<\/em><\/p>\n

EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: Admission to TMA is always free, but visitors are required to register at the Information Desks upon arrival. The Museum is open Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. The Museum is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays and on certain holidays.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Museum is located at 2445 Monroe St. at Scottwood Avenue, just west of the downtown business district and one block off I-75, with exit designations posted. <\/em><\/p>\n

For general information, visitors can call 419-255-8000 or 800-644-6862 or visit\u00a0<\/em>toledomuseum.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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