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Roberto Longhi Foundation Exhibits Its Caravaggios at the Capitoline Museums

Longhi’s lifetime ambition was the artistic re-evaluation of Caravaggio and his importance to seventeenth-century Baroque painting. He reached his goal by curating two mega-exhibitions in Milan: “Caravaggio e i caravaggeschi” in 1951 and “I pittori della realtà in Lombardia” in 1953. Besides Caravaggio, Longhi also put Piero della Francesca on the world map. Among the other artists he wrote about were: Cimabue, Masolino, Massaccio, Correggio, Carpaccio, Artemisia Gentileschi, the Futurists, The Roman School, and Giorgio Morandi.

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Ending World Hunger? The Value of a Life When a Few Paintings Can Feed Millions

820 million people do not have enough to eat globally, and approximately 3.1 million children die from undernutrition each year. At the same time the 5 most expensive paintings purchased by art collectors could relieve world hunger. Covid-19 will eventually end, but world hunger will persist unless we do something meaningful about it. What is the value of a life if a couple of paintings could feed millions?

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