I left the house while everyone was still sleeping on the morning of our travel day away from Burgundy and the fun of celebrating Brian’s 50th. I journeyed out onto the Italian Peninsula in my continuing quest to learn more about Caravaggio and his works. I was also aware of a number of exhibitions running in selected Italian cities and, if the occasion presented itself, I would visit a few of those.
I started out by taking a 6:10 am train from Beaune (Burgundy) to Milan by way of Lyon Part-Dieu. The total trip duration was 5 hours, 18 minutes, including a 40-minute change-of-train in Lyon.
In Milan I first went to Pinacoteca Ambrosiana where i was able to see Caravaggio’s Basket of Fruit.
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| Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio) Basket of Fruit, c. 1599 |
While at the museum I was able to see a number of other works to include Raphael’s Cartoon for the School of Athens fresco and a number of works by Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), including Mary Magdalene, and Sandro Botticelli’s The Madonna of the Pavilion.
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| Raphael, Cartoon for School of Athens fresco, 1508 - 1509 |
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| Sandro Botticelli, The Madonna of the Pavilion, 1510 |
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| Tiziano Vecellio, Mary Magdalene, 1575 |
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| Tiziano Vecellio, The Adoration of the Magi, 1559 - 1560 |
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| Tiziano Vecellio, Man in Armour, c. 1530 |
I walked from Pinacoteca Ambrosiana to Palazzo Reale where an Anselm Kiefwr exhibition titled The Alchemists was running.
The exhibition features large-scale works honoring the memory of “…women whose memory were erased from history. Living primarily between the Midde Ages and the late seventeenth century, these alchemists were guardians of ancient forms of knowledge connected to nature, fire, earth, and the cycles of life.” A few of these works are shown below.
It had been a long day. I pulled up to Signor vino wine bar behind the Duomo and called it a day.
I would resume the quest on the following day.
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