Until 28th March 2010
Civic Museum of the Eremitani, Padua

Until 28th March 2010 you will have the opportunity of visiting the exhibition ‘Caravaggio Lotto Ribera. Four centuries of masterpieces’ at the Civic Museum of the Eremitani, in Padua. It is a great exhibition with more than fifty masterpieces representing not only Italian and European painting but also the artistic tastes of one of the greatest Italian critics such as Roberto Longhi. The artworks, in fact, come from the Roberto Longhi Foundation of Florence and the exhibition, in fact, wants to pay homage to his great collecting adventure. Roberto Longhi, who was defined as a ‘Master’ by Paolini, became famous for having arranged, in Italy, the first great exhibition about Caravaggio in 1951. And the most interesting section of the exhibition is, perhaps, that one dealing with the Seventeenth century and in particular the well-known ‘Little boy bitten by the green lizard’, by Caravaggio. As far as the displaying itinerary as a whole is concerned, it goes throughout different centuries: from the Thirteenth century to the painting from Bologna of the Fourteenth century until the Seventeenth century. Among the most relevant artworks of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries, there are, with no doubts, the ones by Dosso Dossi and Lorenzo Lotto (See the gallery). TD