Discovered in the Vatican painting "The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" is not the work of the painter Caravaggio, in spite of loud statements at last week

discovered in the Vatican picture "The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" is not the work of the painter Caravaggio, in spite of loud statements made last week .

Just in time for the 400 th anniversary of the death of the great Italian masters of the front page of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has information on " new Caravaggio ».

As argued in his article, art historian Lydia Salvyuchchi Insolera (Lydia Salviucci Insolera),« The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence has a number of characteristic features of Caravaggio: kyaroskuro to enhance the drama, the prospect , which shows the figure of St.

Last Monday, this information has denied a former minister of the cultural heritage of Italy and a distinguished scholar Paoluchchi Antonio (Antonio Paolucci).

According to him, is" just a copy of decency "with the lost works, made a" worthy "master. According Paoluchchi, wrong angle, which are written the hands of the saint, and anatomy of naked body parts in the background "clumsy and ill. Besides, the picture is not enough skillfully drawn.

addition, before Paoluchchi Many scientists say that they knew nothing about the work of Caravaggio on this subject.

«The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" is now in the cathedral church of the Jesuit Gesu in Rome. Recently the collective expertise of leading art will be an official opinion on the authorship of paintings.

Material prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: ansa.it , artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru