In Romania, an exhibition on Caravaggio opened in Timisoara

(ANSA) - BUCAREST, 18 NOV - The exhibition "The Lights of Caravaggio. The Beginning of Modernity in European Painting in the Collection of Roberto Longhi' opened at the National Art Museum of Timișoara last Saturday and will remain open to the public until 28 February 2025. The Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute of Bucharest contributed to the operation, directly bearing some costs and coagulating around the efforts of the National Art Museum of Timișoara the financial support of some expressions of Italian entrepreneurship active in the Timișoara district.
    On the occasion of the vernissage, the Italian Ambassador in Bucharest Alfredo Durante Mangoni said that "the Italian institutions in Romania have joined the project of Civita and Fondazione Longhi with great enthusiasm, for its relevance and qualified curatorship. Having brought to Timișoara, a crossroads of languages and cultures, the genius of Caravaggio and the legacy of his pictorial revolution makes a qualitative leap forward for bilateral collaboration in the artistic and cultural field: an initiative in line with the breadth and depth of Italian-Romanian relations and animated by a genuine European afflatus, proving that our countries belong to the same cultural space'. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Hon. Federico Mollicone, President of the Culture, Science and Education Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.