Caravaggio Superstar

By any reckoning, Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) ranks securely as one of the most popular Old Master painters among museum-goers today. Hardly a year goes by without a major exhibition in some part of the world devoted to him or his influence or without a new biography or critical analysis of his work. In fact, he is even more popular today than he ever was during his own lifetime: Why is that? Boston College’s Franco Mormando will answer that question as we dissect and discuss a selection of Caravaggio’s paintings, from his earlier known work to the last of his tragically short life.

Nov. 1
2:00 p.m.

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Franco Mormando is Professor of Italian and chairperson of the Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures at Boston College, where he has taught since 1994. He is a specialist in Baroque Rome, and in particular the artist, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. His Bernini: His Life and His Rome represents the first full-length, English-language account of the artist’s private life and public career.