Caravaggio
Subtitle: una obra, un legado
By: Claudia A. Herrera Martínez, coordinación y cuidado editorial ; Valentina Gatti, editora
Contributors: Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610; Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (Mexico); Museo Nacional de Arte (Mexico)
Edition: Primera edición en español.
Series: Museos y galerías; Museos y galerías
Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Nacional de Arte
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Ciudad de México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9786076055229
Subjects: Exhibitions; Influence; Colonial Painting; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Fortune teller (Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da)
Other titles: Caravaggio.; Caravaggio. Italian.
Description: First time exhibition in Mexico of the first version of the "Buona ventura" (The Fortune Teller), a painting by Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The painting exists in two versions, both by Caravaggio: this first version dated 1594 is now part of the collection of the Musei Capitolini in Rome and a second latter version is part of the collection of the Museum Louvre in Paris. This first version of the Caravaggio masterpiece was exhibited alongside 16 paintings by European and Mexican colonial painters created between the 17th and 19th centuries. The catalogue comprises critical, historical and technical essays by Dr. Sergio Guarino and Dr. Federica Papi, both curators from the Musei Capitolini, along with critical texts on the influence of Caravaggio in Mexican painting.
Notes: On occasion of an exhibition held at Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico CIty, Febraury 22 - May 20, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (page 53).

Texts in Spanish and Italian.
Table of contents: title: Caravaggio : la "Buona Ventura" / Sergio Guarino; title: La técnica pictórica de la "Buona Ventura" / Federica Papi; title: Caravaggio y la pintura hispánica : herencia y apropiación / Abraham Villavicencio García; title: Los rastros de Caravaggio en la Antigua Academia de San Carlos / Alivé Piliado Santana; title: Biografías de artistas.; title: Caravaggio : la "Buona Ventura" / Sergio Guarino; title: La tecnica pictorica della "Buona Ventura" / Federica Papi; title: Caravaggio e la pintura ispanica : eredità e appropriazione / Abraham Villavicencio García; title: Le tracce del Caravaggio nell'Antigua Academia de San Carlos / Alivé Piliado Santana; title: Biografíe.