In Roman baroque revisited by Spinoza in Amsterdam

Two lighthouses of the new impetus taken by the Catholic Church in Rome in the first decades of the 17th century shine on the pediment of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Caravaggio and Bernini. We immediately dream of a titanic confrontation between the brawling painter, master of chiaroscuro, and the sculptor, the new incredibly sensual Michelangelo. Las: these two have probably never crossed, it is recalled immediately. Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was only 8 years old when Le Caravage fled the Eternal City after having mortally wounded a man during a duel.

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Besides, the elder's phenomenal and dazzling fame surely reached the ears of the youngest. And, above all, the influence is evident in the works. We can see it in the Philips wing, the place of a clinical white, all in straight lines and angles, where the yet Italian scenographers of this exhibition co-produced with the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna - another extremely rich institution that hosted

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