EVENT NAME: exhibition "Caravaggio and the twentieth century. Roberto Longhi, Anna Banti".

EVENT PLACE: Villa Bardini            

EVENT DATE: from 27 March to 20 July 2025

EVENT PRICE: Full price 10 euros; Reduced 5 euros

OPENING HOURS: Tuesday to Sunday 10am-7.30pm, closed on Mondays

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

The exhibition "Caravaggio and the twentieth century. Roberto Longhi, Anna Banti", which will be held from 27 March to 20 July 2025 at Villa Bardini in Florence, is an unmissable event that goes beyond a simple artistic exhibition. Curated by Cristina Acidini and Claudio Paolini, the exhibition offers a fascinating journey to the rediscovery of a couple who had a profound impact on twentieth-century culture: Roberto Longhi, art historian, and Anna Banti, writer and translator. Together they created a cenacle that brought together some of the most influential artists and intellectuals of that era, helping to shape the Italian and international cultural scene.

Among the masterpieces on display, you can admire works such as "Boy bitten by a lizard" by Caravaggio, the "Apostles" by Jusepe de Ribera and a moving sequence of 10 intimate paintings by Giorgio Morandi, which Longhi and Banti received as a gift. In total, the exhibition includes 40 paintings, drawings, watercolors, original photographs and archival documents that recount the couple's association with writers such as Ungaretti, Bassani, Pasolini, and with artists such as de Pisis, Guttuso, Mafai, and Morandi.

Among the masterpieces on display, you can admire works such as "Boy bitten by a lizard" by Caravaggio, the "Apostles" by Jusepe de Ribera and a moving sequence of 10 intimate paintings by Giorgio Morandi, which Longhi and Banti received as a gift. In total, the exhibition includes 40 paintings, drawings, watercolors, original photographs and archival documents that recount the couple's association with writers such as Ungaretti, Bassani, Pasolini, and with artists such as de Pisis, Guttuso, Mafai, and Morandi.