From 25 March to 20 July on show at Villa Bardini in Florence 'Caravaggio and the 20th Century', a unique opportunity to admire great masterpieces and previously unpublished material thanks to the figures of Roberto Longhi, art historian, and Anna Banti, writer and translator, who have 'revolutionised' art history with the rediscovery of Caravaggio and our 17th century.
There are twelve sections in the exhibition: from Longhi as a collector, the great discoverer of Caravaggio, to those on the relationship between Longhi and cinema and between Longhi and teaching. One room is dedicated to Anna Banti as an art historian, writer and translator, who has the merit of having rediscovered the story of Artemisia, accompanied by a selection of the many drawings that Roberto Longhi himself dedicated to her and by a series of photographs that portray her in the rooms of the villa Il Tasso.
There are twelve sections in the exhibition: from Longhi as a collector, the great discoverer of Caravaggio, to those on the relationship between Longhi and cinema and between Longhi and teaching. One room is dedicated to Anna Banti as an art historian, writer and translator, who has the merit of having rediscovered the story of Artemisia, accompanied by a selection of the many drawings that Roberto Longhi himself dedicated to her and by a series of photographs that portray her in the rooms of the villa Il Tasso.