2024-05-08 09:08:15
A painting of Caravaggio which was sold for almost 1,500 euros ($1,600) at auction in 2021, will be exhibited at the Prado Museum thanks to a temporary loan from its owner, the Madrid institution announced yesterday.
The work titled Behold the manwhich shows Christ with the crown of thorns, is just one of sixty paintings in the world attributed to the Italian master specialized in chiaroscuro (1571-1610).
Because it was thought that its author was someone else, it was valued at 1,500 euros in April 2021 by a Spanish auction house. He culture Ministry Spanish managed to block the operation at the last minute.
Until then, the oil on canvas was believed to belong to a member of the school of José de Ribera, a Spanish painter from the first half of the 17th century known for his religious compositions.
But the Prado Museum issued a report with “sufficient documented and stylistic evidence” to demonstrate that it really was a painting by Caravaggio.
After careful subsequent analysis, several experts concluded “that the Behold the man “It is a masterpiece by the Italian artist,” reported the Prado Museum.
This fact gives the canvas, made between 1605 and 1609, “an extraordinary value”, since “it is one of the approximately only 60 known works of Caravaggio that exist”.
The verification “has represented one of the greatest discoveries in the history of art,” the Madrid art gallery congratulated itself.
The painting, recently restored, will be exhibited in The meadow from May 28 to October, thanks to the “generosity” of its “new owner,” who will “give it on a temporary loan,” the museum detailed.
The institution did not reveal the identity of this new owner or the price for which he acquired this jewel of the world art.
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2024-05-08 09:08:15