Caravaggio in Los Angeles. Masterpieces from the Borghese Gallery

Davide Gasparotto, Senior Curator of Paintings at the Getty Museum, will give his insight on the exhibit Caravaggio: Masterpieces from the Galleria Borghesewhich he curated. This exhibition is on display at the Getty Center through February 18, 2018. It offers a rare opportunity to experience three masterpieces from the renowned Roman museum, and to gain insight into three crucial stages in Caravaggio's short but intense career. 

Gasparotto is a native of Bassano del Grappa, Italy. He studied Art History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Pisa. He then went on to study the History of Art Criticism at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Gasparotto spent 12 years as a curator and art historian at the National Gallery of Parma. He was a Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. (2007), and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art(2011-2012) researching sixteenth-century Italian decorative arts before being appointed director of the Galleria Estense in Modena in September 2012.

He has published extensively on Tuscan, Venetian, Emilian and Lombard art from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

By invitation only and members.