There is always a good reason to return to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
It is probably the most “alive” museum I know, because every time I find something new to see, works to discover, artists to learn about from unusual points of view, and then because there is always a festive air in the halls.
I always feel like everyone is having a good time and it’s contagious!
Now there is a new good reason to come back: the return of one of the most beautiful works by the action painting genius.
Michelangelo Merisi detto il Caravaggio (1571 – 1610) “The calling of Saint Matthew/Vocazione di San Matteo” (1599 – 1600), Oil on canvas, cm 322 x 340, Chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi, Roma.
When I travel to Rome, I cannot help but find at least 5 minutes to go to the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi, because some of the most spectacular works of the seventeenth century and which are considered Caravaggio’s masterpieces are located there.
Among Caravaggio’s most investigated works is definitely the “Calling of St. Matthew” at the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. It is his first commission for a public place and he made the aforementioned canvas confronted by the Martyrdom of St. Matthew at the turn of the 16th century.
Whenever I happen to pass through Vicenza, I always try to find a moment to go and see Palladio’s “La Rotonda,” if only to admire it from the outside and enjoy the landscape around it.
It is one of the most important Venetian Villas built by Andrea Palladio and certainly the most famous.
Construction of the Rotonda began in 1566 on a commission from Paolo Almerico and was completed by the Capra brothers, who bought the building in 1591.
“La Rotonda” is Palladio’s most famous villa and the most famous and imitated building in the history of architecture of the modern era.
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