“This is the first time an original carvaggio has traveled to India,” Says Alfonso Tagliaferri, Consul General of Italy in Bengaluru, at a press conference preceding the unveiling of Magdalene in ecstasy By Renaissance Artist Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio in Bengaluru at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA). “It defines a very good moment of the bilateral relations that we are living in now,” he adds.
The painting depicts Mary of Magdala in a State of Almost-Arotic Spiritual Rapture, Semi-Reclining, Draped in Scarlet Robes with Bared Shoulders and Flowing Auburn Hair, Against a DarkGROND: Especially Pronounced Use of the Classic Chiroscuro Technique of Renaissance Art Called Tenabrism, which he is often credited as having as having. “Art Historians, When they talk of Caravaggio, Quite often Use The Term Realist, but the correct definition would be theatricity – the way he hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee Anastasio, Director of the Italian Cultural Center, Who was also present at the press conference. “Of course, there is a lot of reality because he painted with real models, which sometimes generated trust,” Says anastasio. For instance, in his famous painting of a dying madonna, The death of the virginHe is believed to have used a prostitute, “And that caused a lot of noise in the public… the church refused to take the painting.”
Caravaggio, He Continues, Radically Changed Art, Particularly because of the way he used light. “We have to keep in mind that there is a pre-caravaggio and post-caravaggio, when it comes to painting in europe,” he says, pointing out that many artists, intelligence, repenting and Velázquez, Drew Inspiration from his use of light. “Caravaggism is a fashion where artists used his way of painting pictures and his way of using light.”
An important artist
The painting is accounted by a vr experience offering visitors a deeper engine with the artist’s work. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Magdalene in ecstasy Is Believed to Have Been Painted In 1606, while Caravaggio was in Hidding, after He Had Killed A Man, Ranucccio Tommason, in a brawl. “Caravaggio has a Troubled, Really Tragic Life,” Says anastasio, adding that the artist was a temperamental man with a defense “You have to keep in mind that, at the age of six, in one day, he lost his father, his aunt, uncle and another very close to very close relative due to flag,” he says.
The Remining Family Left Milan to Escape the Epidemic, Moving to the Town of Caravaggio in Bergamo, Lombardy, Where he was raised by his mother and, during this period, they appeared to have decided to face made His Talent, however, by most accounts, was undeniable. According to the Caravaggio Foundation’s website, in 1584, He Started as an apprentice to the Lombard Painter Simone Peterzano, A Pupil of Titian. By 1592, He Had Moved To Rome, Where He Began “Performing Hack-Work for the Highly Successful Giuseppe Cesari, Pope Clement VIIII’s favorite painter,” IT States.
Within two years, he quit cesari and decided to make his own way in the world and, over time, became an establed name in Italy. But his tempstuous natural meant that he was “notorous for brawling, even in a time and place when would think behavior was communication, and the transports of his police records and trial procegedings film Pages. “
By 39, He was dead, passing away under mysterious circumstans in 1610; However, his legacy lives on, and how. “There are a bunch of artists who are the most important for us (Italians),” Says Consul General Tagliaferri, Naming some of them. “Leonardo (Da Vinci), Michelangelo, Raphael… After this, I would say, is Caravaggio… very important for us and the history of the world.”
Lost and Found
For centuries, Magdalene in ecstasy Was believed to have been loss to the world, even thought “We knew the painting existed elder copies were made,” Says anastasio. Then, in 2014, it was discovered in a private collection of an aristocratic italian family who had owned it for centuries. “When the last owner of the painting died, she left nine important paintings from her collection to her nephew and niece. Workshop, the restorer suspected it was important. ”
Further Investigations by Experts, Investigation The Art Historian Guglielma Gregori, Reveled that it was indeed the Missing Painting and “after that that the painting has been traveled and has been done Countries. The reason is here is the joy of sharing of such an exquisite nature, ”He says.
The painting, which was first unveiled in India at the kiran nadar museum of art, delhi, is acompanied by a vr experience offering visitors a deeper engine with the artist ‘ “The Viewer Comes Most of the Time, Knowing Vry Little About The Artist or The Historical Context, So Doing it in a Way That They Would Engage Is Important,” Says Anastasio. “And vr does it in a beautiful way.”
For Dr Sanjeev Kishor Goutam, Director General, Ngma, “This exceptional exhibition of Magdalene in ecstasy Honoring Caravaggio’s Creative Heritage Will, In My Opinion, Have a Lasting Influence on World Art History, “He says. Audience of Art EnthusIasts and spectators from all walls of life, especially academic and students study the arts. ”
Magdalene in ecstasy will be displayed at the national gallery of modern art till July 6
Published – June 14, 2025 12:14 pm IST
