From 13 October 2023 to 14 January 2024 the Gallerie Estensi in Modena present “ Ter Brugghen. From Holland to Italy in the footsteps of Caravaggio” , the first major Italian exhibition dedicated to the Dutch painter Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588 – 1629) which traces the artist's extraordinary stay in our country, a stay that indelibly marked the imprint of his painting. The discovery of the Italian phase of Ter Brugghen is a recent event. Although it was known that the painter had resided in Rome and Italy for at least six or seven years, between approximately 1607-1608 and 1614, studies had not explored this youthful period in depth, which instead, like all the experiences lived by Nordic painters in the papal capital, could be hypothesized as crucial for his path.

Curated by Gianni Papi and Federico Fischetti, the exhibition will present the very important results of the most recent research on Ter Brugghen, bringing together all the works belonging to the artist's Italian phase, which ranks him among the protagonists of the first naturalistic movement resulting from the Caravaggio revolution: alongside Ribera and the other participants in Michelangelo Merisi's "schola", namely Bartolomeo Manfredi, Cecco del Caravaggio and Spadarino.