Gallery Course: Caravaggio and Baroque Painting

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio revolutionized painting in seventeenth-century Europe. Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy gives visitors the unique opportunity to see not only Caravaggio's work (rare in American collections) but also that of his contemporaries, which clearly demonstrates Caravaggio's enormous influence. In this gallery course, educator and art historian Mary Lenihan offers an introductory lecture on Caravaggio followed by a private tour of the exhibition.

Brown Auditorium | $35 general admission, $30 members; includes refreshments and parking

Image: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy, c. 1595, Wadsworth Atheneuym Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, photo © 2012 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.