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Caravaggio and its many mysteries

October 16 will be exposed to Saint Stephen the "Martyrdom of Saint Catherine" To enrich the exhibition there will be an original interpretation of the 'Dinner Emmaus "and a copy made after the end of" Nativity "was stolen in 1969 from the Oratory of San Lorenzo

(Vincenzo Prestigiacomo - Sicily - 10/01/2010) His life was a desperate, violent and often mysterious. And, after four hundred years after his death, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is still fun to create a kind of rebus about its work in breaking the opinions of art criticism. It 's the case of the painting "The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine," a famous painting that is in a monastery in Zejtun, south of Malta, and the next will be on display Oct. 16 at the Oratory of S. Stephen the Martyr. Palermo is also a dedicated artist Lombard International Symposium (Norman Palace, October 15). The initiative is promoted by Extroart, in collaboration with The Caravaggio Foundation, University of Malta, Studio Art Centers International and the National Library of Malta. Among the speakers at the conference Roberta Lapucci, Keith Sciberras, Mauro Di Vito, Louis Gippetto, Alvise Spadaro, Anna Palagaotti, Sebastiano Tusa, Valeria Merlini, Renzo Botindari , Claudio Falcucci. It 's long flight of Caravaggio. He jumped from place to place: Rome, Naples, Malta, Syracuse, Messina, Palermo. Although it was always followed by death could paint beautiful masterpieces imbued with a dark surreal, with glimmers of light beam. The revolution lies in the style of Caravaggio's naturalism of his work, expressed in the subjects of his paintings and in the atmospheres in which the plasticity figures is highlighted by special lighting that dramatically highlights the volumes of the bodies that come suddenly from the darkness of the scene. It is said that Caravaggio in his study of lights positioned in specific places so that the characters were lit only partially, leaving the rest of the body in the dark environment. On the 'Martyrdom of Saint Catherine' most reliable studies which they see firsthand that of Caravaggio, which would initiate the creation of the painting, perhaps depicting a warrior with armor. The rest of the canvas suggests a lot to Mario Minniti, linked by strong friendship with Caravaggio. In 1608 the Syracuse hosted the restless artist on the run from Malta and is likely to have been just to get him to the Lombard painter some contacts with the client Sicilian religious and secular. Next to the painting of the seventeenth century the exhibition will be enriched by an original in a contemporary interpretation of "The Supper at Emmaus" and a copy created by the famous Termini saccense Calogero "Nativity" was stolen from the Oratory of San Lorenzo October 17, 1969. The hunt continues in the Valley and work with great passion. "We believe that the conference and the exhibition - said Gippetto Ludovico, artistic director of Extroart - acts are due to Caravaggio and, above all, a moment of redemption for a city, which after the theft of the Nativity from the Oratory of San Lorenzo , has provided a new name to add to the sad list of missing works of public use, to a painting by the FBI included among the ten most important works of art on the planet. " The art market has always been a crime and it has strongly been fascinated for easy money. Over the past 40 years the objects stolen from churches, monasteries, museums and patrician houses are not longer able to count on. Thus was born the special edition of "Wanted ... taken in the right direction," a box containing 20 postcards with photographs of some important works stolen. And Vittorio Sgarbi: "We should do as widely as possible''Wanted ... taken in the right direction'', multiplying copies, bring them to schools, universities, public places. "