More than just a show-file it is a exhibition of exceptional quality all focused on improving led by Caravaggio during the seventeenth century in Europe.

Extraordinary business card of the oldest museum in the United States of America, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.

 The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford is considered the oldest American Museum and is still one of the most important and respected American museums with a dense collection of masterpieces ranging from the European art mainly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an Impressionist section and another on painting of the twentieth century, moving from Matisse, Picasso and Klee, touches broadly Surrealism of Magritte, Dali, Ernst and Tanguy and reaches Pollock, Rothko and Wyeth in America

Shadow line has been to prioritize among many possible collections, a specific area: the seventeenth century. And a tribute to Caravaggio 400 years after his death.

From the Italian artist the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford possesses a magnificent work that, although the request was not granted for loans for various exhibitions in Europe in 2010 will remember Caravaggio.

 The Ecstasy of St. Francis, the very first part of a religious painting made by the great artist between 1594 and 1595. Around this magnificent canvas, the exhibition presents fifteen other carefully selected works, all of great beauty and quality, almost always large, the authors have derived from Caravaggio example in Italy, as Cigoli Morazzone, Gentileschi, Strozzi, Saracens.

So within Spanish Zurbaran, Ribera and Ribalta, Le Sueur in France and the Flemish and Dutch Sweerts, Van Dyck and Hals. Magnificent works from Europe which were removed for a long time and now, for the space of an exhibition are back.

 Opening Period: from 23^rd October 2010 to 27^th March 2011.

Location : Rimini, Castel Sismondo, Piazza Malatesta.

Admission fee