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Press Release:
COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART EXTENDS CARAVAGGIO: BEHOLD THE MAN! THE IMPACT OF A REVOLUTIONARY REALIST
(Columbus, OH) – The Columbus Museum of Art’s exhibition, Caravaggio: Behold the Man, has been extended. In honor of the Columbus Bicentennial, the popular exhibition will remain on view through February 12, 2012.
Caravaggio revolutionized the art world with his dramatic lighting and distinctively realistic style. His immeasurable talent was often eclipsed by the excess of his personal life. Late night brawls and multiple arrests forced him to live as an exile while dodging a Papal death warrant. CMA offers a rare opportunity to view the work of this Italian Baroque master. Ecce Homo (Behold the Man), painted by Caravaggio around 1605, and lent by the Musei di Strada Nuova – Palazzo Bianco, Genoa. This powerful painting is the centerpiece of this exclusive exhibition organized by CMA.
Underscoring his remarkable influence upon his contemporaries will be ten other paintings—images of saints and sinner alike, lent from the collections of major Ohio museums and one private collection. These are works by artists who emulated Caravaggio’s distinctive and dramatically realistic style and they demonstrate the importance of Caravaggism throughout seventeenth-century European painting.
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