Talks | The Taking of Christ – Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories with Áine Andrews at Triskel Arts Centre

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In each Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories lecture, Artist and art teacher Áine Andrews will focus on a particular painting to recount its history. 

Week 5: The Taking of Christ, Caravaggio 1602

Art historians knew of The Taking of Christ but the painting was lost for several centuries. Over the years it became the most sought after Caravaggio piece, until it was found hiding in plain sight in a Jesuit house ‘in Dublin of all places’ in 1990.

The painting has now returned to Dublin, but its fascinating story of course made it one of the Barberini exhibition’s most exciting highlights. Hopefully the new Pope got to see it in Rome but who knows, he may well have seen it on one of his many trips to Ireland.