Yesterday night the Italian Cultural Institute hosted a lecture on Caravaggio entitled "The Painter’s body" by the Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and Adjunct Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, Marco Ruffini. The audience was really enthusiastic and interested in discovering new and stimulating details about this innovating artist, thanks especially to the accurate and exhaustive explanations by professor Ruffini who mainly focused on the comparison between the art of Federico Zuccari and the innovation of the Lombard genius. This lecture was presented on the occasion of Caravaggio's 400 years death’s anniversary, and on the occasion of the sensational discovery of the artist’s remains in Porto Ercole in Tuscany. This event was also presented in conjunction with the 2010 Chicago Humanities Festival's theme “The Body.”
