World culture: Unknown works of Caravaggio are found in Italy

8 July 2012
Source: Lenta.Ru

Italian art critics have found in Sforza Castle about one hundred of previously unknown drawings and several paintings by Caravaggio. The works were made in 1584-1588, when young artist studied painting in Milan.

Drawings and paintings by the young Caravaggio were found among the works of artist Simone Petertsano’s students in the workshop of whom the future master trained with 13 years old. Petertsano at the time was a famous painter in Milan. Researchers Maurizio Bernardelli Kuruz and Adrian Concon Fedrigolli who have been studied the Castle’s archive for several years, reported of findings of the drawings.

Previously unknown drawings are now published in the e-book of two experts, dedicated to the early works of Caravaggio.