Hermitage luck in Italy, his Caravaggio

[SergeiSK]

In 2010, when we are celebrating 400 years since the death of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, The State Hermitage Museum will bring in a few days in Ferrara artist's famous painting "The young man with a lute. This agency reported ANSA.it.
In Ferrara is the center of Hermitage-Italy ". In 2010, the museum plans to present a directory where the XVI century Italian painting, the cover of which is decorated with reproductions "Lute-Player." The presentation will be made public a study of Italian and Russian specialists about the painting by Caravaggio.
"The young man with a lute, known in three variants. In the Hermitage there are paintings in the collection of cloth Vildenshteyna (New York) and the canvas from the collection of Badminton House (estate of the Dukes of Beaufort in the British county of Gloucestershire). In 2001, appeared in Germany and the fourth version, but its authenticity is disputed.
Who served as a model for the lute player, is not known, but there are suggestions that it was Mario Minniti, Sicilian painter, a friend and possibly lover of Caravaggio. There is a version that Karavazhdo posing Spanish singer-neutered Pedro Montoya.
(Lenta.ru)