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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The young man with the lute. The end of the restoration
Exhibition December 10, 2017 − March 25, 2018
Painting of Caravaggio's "Boy with a lute" is the pearl of the Hermitage collection. Exhibition-performance painting after its restoration – is an outstanding event not only for the Hermitage, but the entire international art community.
The work of Caravaggio is largely determined the development of painting, has had a powerful impact on many artists in all regions of Italy and Western Europe. Caravaggio is considered the founder of Italian Baroque, the conventions of the Mannerist style of the late XVI century, he contrasted the simplicity and humanity. A wide resonance in the art world caused a new direction in painting. Monumental, realistic, special create striking effects of light and colour technique of Caravaggio is not immediately found understanding in most official customers and even colleagues in the profession.
The painting "Boy with a lute" was created in 1595-96, by order of the Marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani, one of the refined connoisseur of fine arts. Different versions who exactly shown in the picture, not find enough good reasons.
Modern audiences are unlikely to see in this "genre scene" a complex subtext. The researchers interpret the allegorical meaning of the painting is ambiguous.
In 1808, the painting "Boy with a lute" was brought from Rome to Paris, where it was acquired for the Imperial picture gallery.
"Young man with a lute" was received in the Laboratory for scientific restoration of easel painting of the State Hermitage Museum in may 2015. Restoration of paintings accompanied by a detailed technological study using modern precision equipment.
After a long and painstaking work of specialists, visitors updated picture: steel paint cleaner that allows you to fully appreciate the amazing quality of painting of the great artist. The study of radiographs gave grounds to assume that the Hermitage version of the painting is the first among those available in this plot.
On the official website The State Hermitage Museum.
The work of Caravaggio is largely determined the development of painting, has had a powerful impact on many artists in all regions of Italy and Western Europe. Caravaggio is considered the founder of Italian Baroque, the conventions of the Mannerist style of the late XVI century, he contrasted the simplicity and humanity. A wide resonance in the art world caused a new direction in painting. Monumental, realistic, special create striking effects of light and colour technique of Caravaggio is not immediately found understanding in most official customers and even colleagues in the profession.
The painting "Boy with a lute" was created in 1595-96, by order of the Marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani, one of the refined connoisseur of fine arts. Different versions who exactly shown in the picture, not find enough good reasons.
Modern audiences are unlikely to see in this "genre scene" a complex subtext. The researchers interpret the allegorical meaning of the painting is ambiguous.
In 1808, the painting "Boy with a lute" was brought from Rome to Paris, where it was acquired for the Imperial picture gallery.
"Young man with a lute" was received in the Laboratory for scientific restoration of easel painting of the State Hermitage Museum in may 2015. Restoration of paintings accompanied by a detailed technological study using modern precision equipment.
After a long and painstaking work of specialists, visitors updated picture: steel paint cleaner that allows you to fully appreciate the amazing quality of painting of the great artist. The study of radiographs gave grounds to assume that the Hermitage version of the painting is the first among those available in this plot.
On the official website The State Hermitage Museum.
