In the Banco di Napoli Historical Archives, a show on Caravaggio, an artist as innovative as controversial, is on show.
Palazzo Ricca, seat ofHistorical Archive of the Banco di Napoli, the theater will be11 June 2017 of "84 days - The shadows of Caravaggio", a traveling show by the cultural association NarteA, which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary.
Written and directed by Febo Quercia, with Mario Di Fonzo, Annalisa Director, Andrea Fiorillo, Matteo Lanzara and Peppe Romano, the show will be dedicated to mystery of the four paintings made in Naples in just 84 days from the great Michelangelo Merisi and will analyze, through written testimonies, the shadows of a man capable of drawing legendary artistic light from his own anxieties.
The theme of the show on Caravaggio
Radolovich, a cynical merchant, commissioned a Madonna to Caravaggio with a child in her arms, a mediocre subject according to the artist. The painting was certainly paid in advance for 200 ducats, according to a credit note found in the Historical Archive of the Banco di Napoli. Nevertheless there is no trace of it in Naples, giving rise to many hypotheses.
Has the picture ever been realized? He entered the composition of the Seven works of Mercy? Is it unfinished or has it been completed by others? Or was it brought to Vienna, where a Madonna of the Rosary seems to embody the characteristics of the Radolovich commission? These questions will be addressed in this show, which will be possible participate only by booking.
