The last Caravaggio (in Naples) praised by the Financial Times

The Financial Timeswith an extensive critical article Jackie Wullschlägerreviews the exhibition “The Last Caravaggio” which the National Gallery in London dedicates, from 18 April to 21 July 2024, to “The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula” by Caravaggio, property of Intesa Sanpaolo, the most important of the 35 thousand works in the Bank’s collection, normally exhibited at its museum in the Gallerie d’Italia in Naples.

The journalist tells the curious history of the paintingof its purchase by the Banca Commerciale, now part of the banking group, and of its subsequent attribution to Caravaggio, appreciating that the “home” of the masterpiece is today precisely in that teeming Via Toledo in Naples where, already at the time, Caravaggio found among ordinary people, on the street, the subjects for the sacred roles reproduced in his paintings.

The exhibitiondefined by the newspaper as “the very welcome free exhibition”, is created on the occasion of the bicentenary of the National Gallery as part of a consolidated relationship that has existed for several years between the Bank and the prestigious museum. In Naples, at the Intesa Sanpaolo museumfrom 24 April 2024 to 14 July 2024 two masterpieces by Diego Velázquez will arrive from the National Gallery: Immaculate Conception and Saint John the Evangelist in Patmos.

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