Mattioli / Caravaggio. The Lightful Fruit

Pinacoteca Ambrosiana is hosting an unprecedented comparison between the works of Carlo Mattioli (1911-1994), one of the Italian masters of the 20th century, and Caravaggio’s “The Basket of Fruit,” in the collection of the Milanese museum.

The exhibition, titled “Mattioli/Caravaggio. The lightful fruit,” conceived and organised by the Carlo Mattioli Foundation of Parma, features twenty oil paintings by Mattioli giving an unprecedented point of view on Caravaggio’s masterpiece, four hundred years after its creation.