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Caravaggio’s lost masterpiece
In 2024, on May 27, “Ecce Homo” — Latin for “watch the man” — is shown in public for the first time since Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, painted it four centuries ago. The painting, of Christ being exhibited before his crucifixion, spent all those years in private hands, and was eventually misattributed to an obscure artist rather than to the Italian Baroque master.
Only in 2021, when an auction house in Madrid put the scratched and worn-out work under the hammer with a starting bid of just €1,500 (US$1,627), did the city’s Prado National Museum call in experts to check its provenance. They were unanimous: this was a lost work by Caravaggio, whose paintings are prized for their rarity — barely 60 have survived — as much as for their quality. A British art collector bought “Ecce Homo” for €36 million and has loaned the now-restored painting to the Prado until October 2024.
(Brooke Unger. https://view.e.economist.com, 27.05.2024. Adaptado.)
a) De acordo com o primeiro parágrafo, o que ocorreu no dia 27 de maio de 2024? Quando o quadro mencionado no texto foi pintado?
b) Conforme as informações do primeiro parágrafo, o que a pintura representa? Qual a controvérsia que envolveu a autoria do quadro?
a) O quadro “Ecce Homo” de Caravaggio, nesta data, foi exibido ao público pela primeira vez desde que fora pintado. O quadro foi pintado em 1624.
b) A pintura representa Cristo antes da crucificação. A pintura foi mal atribuída a um artista obscuro ao invés do mestre do Barroco Italiano, passando todo esse tempo nas mãos de um colecionador particular.