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A phenomenal Caravaggio summer in Syracuse
A phenomenal Caravaggio summer in Syracuse
The exhibition in the Heart of our City of an extraordinary Caravaggio Opera, realized in 1607 during its season“” Neapolitan and kept at the Museum of Cleveland, represents an extraordinary opportunity for our City and an event worthy of its millenary history.
Ithe “dialogue” suggestive, wanted and sought with the other masterpiece of Caravaggio, “The martyrdom of Saint Lucia”, jealously guarded in our Church of Santa Lucia alla Badia, located a few meters and in the same beautiful Piazza Duomo, will allow the miracle of the perception of an original and unpublished Caravaggio landscape, made even more suggestive by the context “Caravaggio Experience” set up in the underground section of the same Square, in the heart of its mysterious hypogea.Some works by Mario minniti will be the masterly completion of the exhibition “context”, through the beauty of the pictorial sign of the largest Sicilian and Syracuse Caravaggio. Mario minniti had an intense relationship with Michelangelo merisi during his stay in Syracuse and also his biography, according to some sources, follows the complicated existential events of Caravaggio. As well as his Works. His workshop was very active and certainly played an important role in the Syracuse season of Caravaggio.
( Fonte Comune di Siracusa, 04.04.2019 – Fabio granata Councillor for Culture, University and UNESCO Heritage City of Syracuse)
Ithe “dialogue” suggestive, wanted and sought with the other masterpiece of Caravaggio, “The martyrdom of Saint Lucia”, jealously guarded in our Church of Santa Lucia alla Badia, located a few meters and in the same beautiful Piazza Duomo, will allow the miracle of the perception of an original and unpublished Caravaggio landscape, made even more suggestive by the context “Caravaggio Experience” set up in the underground section of the same Square, in the heart of its mysterious hypogea.Some works by Mario minniti will be the masterly completion of the exhibition “context”, through the beauty of the pictorial sign of the largest Sicilian and Syracuse Caravaggio. Mario minniti had an intense relationship with Michelangelo merisi during his stay in Syracuse and also his biography, according to some sources, follows the complicated existential events of Caravaggio. As well as his Works. His workshop was very active and certainly played an important role in the Syracuse season of Caravaggio.
( Fonte Comune di Siracusa, 04.04.2019 – Fabio granata Councillor for Culture, University and UNESCO Heritage City of Syracuse)
