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Dr. Francesca Cappelletti, esteemed Caravaggio scholar, Director of the Borghese Gallery, and co-curator of Caravaggio 2025 at Palazzo Barberini in Rome, gives a lecture in connection with the Morgan’s current exhibition, Caravaggio’s “Boy with a Basket of Fruit” in Focus. The program will explore the relationships between Caravaggio, Scipione Borghese, and the Roman artistic milieu, fraught with clashes, rivalries, and new ideas about painting in early 17th-century Rome.
Francesca Cappelletti was appointed Director of Galleria Borghese in Rome in 2020. A professor of the history of modern art at the University of Ferrara, she studied in Rome at the “La Sapienza” University, in London at the Warburg Institute, and in Paris at the College de France. Cappelletti contributed to the rediscovery of Caravaggio’s painting "The Taking of Christ", now in Dublin, and in the course of her career has conducted many other important research, curating, and organizational activities.
Held Friday, March 20, 2026.
Dr. Francesca Cappelletti, esteemed Caravaggio scholar, Director of the Borghese Gallery, and co-curator of Caravaggio 2025 at Palazzo Barberini in Rome, gives a lecture in connection with the Morgan’s current exhibition, Caravaggio’s “Boy with a Basket of Fruit” in Focus. The program will explore the relationships between Caravaggio, Scipione Borghese, and the Roman artistic milieu, fraught with clashes, rivalries, and new ideas about painting in early 17th-century Rome.
Francesca Cappelletti was appointed Director of Galleria Borghese in Rome in 2020. A professor of the history of modern art at the University of Ferrara, she studied in Rome at the “La Sapienza” University, in London at the Warburg Institute, and in Paris at the College de France. Cappelletti contributed to the rediscovery of Caravaggio’s painting "The Taking of Christ", now in Dublin, and in the course of her career has conducted many other important research, curating, and organizational activities.
Held Friday, March 20, 2026.
