ABOUT THE LECTURE

A lecture by Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli, PhD. Refreshments to follow.

Aanibale Carracci and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio are the indisputed protagonists of the artistic scene in Rome in the early 17th century. They could have not been more different, both in terms of artistic language and personality. And yet, their lives and work often crossed paths making a parallel between the two almost inevitable. They both came to Rome at the same time — toward the end of the 16th century — and once there, they stirred an artistic revolution with their sensational art. They also died a few years apart in tragic circumstances.

This talk will examine some of their most remarkable commissions, setting a comparison between their contrasting yet somehow akin outcomes. Carracci’s and Caravaggio’s production is a reflection of the multifacted and contradictory style that developed in the 17th century and was later labeled as Baroque.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli is a native of Treviso and studied Art History at Ca’Foscari University in Venice. She received her doctorate in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art at Rutgers University (NJ) with a dissertation on Venetian Renaissance sculpture. She is currently teaching at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York where her classes on the History of Western Art & Civilization, Renaissance Art, and Baroque Art draw attention to a global and cross-cultural context. Dr. Baseggio has worked extensively in a number of art museums in New York and New Jersey, name the Morgan Library & Museum, The Frick Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Zimmerli Art Museum.