Artist and art teacher Áine Andrews gives a talk on The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Tuesday 2 December. Part of Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories – Autumn 2025 Lecture Series.
Artist and art teacher Áine Andrews returns with another series of lectures. In each lecture, Áine will focus on a particular painting to recount its history, as well as that of the artist.
The lectures can be attended as a series or individually.
Week 5: The Taking of Christ
Caravaggio 1602
The extraordinary Caravaggio 2025 exhibition at Palazzo Barberini Rome brought together 24 absolute masterpieces. Among them was The Taking of Christ from the National Gallery in Dublin.
Art historians knew of The Taking of Christ but the painting itself was lost for centuries. Over the years it became the most sought after Caravaggio masterpiece, until it was found hiding in plain sight in a Jesuit house ‘in Dublin of all places’ in 1990.
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