Serate Culturali a Collina: Caravaggio & Carracci

NB: This event is in Italian.
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Annibale Carracci and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, two artists whose personality and artistic language could not be more different. However, their destinies often intertwined. They both came to Rome at the same time – toward the end of the sixteenth century – and once there they stirred an artistic revolution with their sensational works. They also died a few years apart in tragic circumstances. This talk will examine some of their most remarkable commissions, setting a comparison between their opposite yet somehow akin outcomes. Carracci’s and Caravaggio’s production is a reflection of the multifaceted and contradictory style which developed in the seventeenth century and was later labeled as Baroque.

Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli is a native of Treviso and studied Art History at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. She received her doctorate in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art at Rutgers University (NJ) with a dissertation on Venetian Renaissance sculpture. She is currently teaching at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NY where her classes on the History of Western Art & Civilization, Renaissance Art, and Baroque Art draw attention to a global and cross-cultural context. Dr. Baseggio has worked extensively in a number of art museums in NY and NJ, namely the Morgan Library & Museum, The Frick Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Zimmerli Art Museum.