Caravaggio's 'Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy' on Loan to the Detroit Institute of Arts

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By Dustin Block

Caption for attached image: Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, ca. 1595–96; oil on canvas. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund. (DIA )

MICHIGAN---Caravaggio's "Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy" will be on loan to the Detroit Institute of Arts beginning Oct. 10. The painting, considered an early masterpiece of the Italian great, comes to Detroit from the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn. It will be on display at the DIA through Jan. 13. "Saint Francis" will be displayed next to the DIA’s own Caravaggio painting, "Martha and Mary Magdalene," also considered one of his finest masterpieces. These two 16th-century paintings demonstrate Caravaggio’s proficient rendering of form and his deep spiritual and emotional sense of the Christian faith. [link]