RM Trip Overview
We will virtually walk on the footsteps of Michelangelo Merisi aka Caravaggio using google earth mixed with other visual aids! We’ll start from Piazza Navona and then visit 3 stunning churches: San Luigi dei Francesi, San’Agostino and Santa Maria del Popolo and “see” 6 original paintings by the master! We will walk in the alleys where he lived, loved, worked and….fought until he killed someone! We’ll discover, his art, his adventurous life (and explore the city centre of Rome at the same time). CARAVAGGIO, was not only a painter, but a “star”! His adventurous life, full of sensational events, and his revolutionary style made him an undisputed leading figure of Italian art: you can find out everything about on our Caravaggio Experience. He came to Rome in search of fame and died at the young age of forty in exile, banished by the Pope after committing murder. He lived a short, dramatic life, knew the city of Rome in all its aspects, including the violent, sketchy and dangerous ones.
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Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Starts: RM, Italy
Trip Category: Classes & Workshops >> Art Classes
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We will virtually walk on the footsteps of Michelangelo Merisi aka Caravaggio using google earth mixed with other visual aids! We’ll start from Piazza Navona and then visit 3 stunning churches: San Luigi dei Francesi, San’Agostino and Santa Maria del Popolo and “see” 6 original paintings by the master! We will walk in the alleys where he lived, loved, worked and….fought until he killed someone! We’ll discover, his art, his adventurous life (and explore the city centre of Rome at the same time). CARAVAGGIO, was not only a painter, but a “star”! His adventurous life, full of sensational events, and his revolutionary style made him an undisputed leading figure of Italian art: you can find out everything about on our Caravaggio Experience. He came to Rome in search of fame and died at the young age of forty in exile, banished by the Pope after committing murder. He lived a short, dramatic life, knew the city of Rome in all its aspects, including the violent, sketchy and dangerous ones.
Itinerary
We will virtually walk on the footsteps of Michelangelo Merisi aka Caravaggio using google earth mixed with other visual aids! We’ll start from Piazza Navona and then visit 3 stunning churches: San Luigi dei Francesi, San’Agostino and Santa Maria del Popolo and “see” 6 original paintings by the master!
We will walk in the alleys where he lived, loved, worked and….fought until he killed someone!
It will be an opportunity to discover not only his art also his adventurous life (and explore the city centre of Rome at the same time).
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, best know as simply CARAVAGGIO, was not only a painter, but a “star”!
His adventurous life, full of sensational events, and his revolutionary style made him an undisputed leading figure of Italian art: you can find out everything about on our Caravaggio Experience
He came to Rome in 1597-98 in search of fame and died at the young age of forty in exile, banished by the Pope after committing murder. Caravaggio lived a short, dramatic life and knew the city of Rome in all its aspects, including the violent, sketchy and dangerous ones.
Stop At:
• Church of St. Louis of the French, Piazza San Luigi de’ Francesi, 00186 Rome Italy
• Sant’Agostino, Sant’Agostino, Province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna
• Chiesa di Santa Maria del Popolo, Piazza del Popolo 12 Campo Marzio, 00187 Rome Italy
