CARAVAGGIO: IX Dialogue at the Pinacoteca di Brera

“Caravaggio” is the ninth Dialogue at the Pinacoteca di Brera that will compare two absolute masterpieces of the Lombard genius such as The Supper at Emmaus from the Pinacoteca di Brera and David with the Head of Goliath from the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
The exhibition gives the public the opportunity to witness an event that stages a never-before-seen comparison: the two paintings, both belonging to the artist’s late production and executed between Rome and Naples, are in fact exhibited side by side for the first time, with the public and scholars called upon to reason and discuss the issue of the dating of the David with the Head of Goliath, still much debated by critics.

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This is a unique opportunity of being able to admire and meditate thanks to a close comparison will allow the public to grasp the details, even the bloody and extremely realistic ones, of the Borghese painting: such as the severed head of the Goliath, a probable self-portrait of the artist, Caravaggio’s peculiar drafts of colour, the glint of the sword, with the Augustinian motto “H-AS-OS” (“Humilitas occidit superbiam”) sealed in the hilt, the small folds of David’s white shirt.