Matthias Stom

The Tosio Martinengo Art Gallery dedicates a major exhibition to Matthias Stom, Flemish painter of the 17th century and one of the most intense interpreters of Caravaggio's lesson. The exhibition, curated by Gianni Papirepresents the first chance in Italy entirely dedicated to this artist still shrouded in mystery, whose production was distinguished by a language strongly naturalistic and for the dramatic use of light.

The exhibition brings together the entire nucleus of Stom's works preserved in Lombardyfrom museums and private collections: masterpieces from theCarrara Academy of Bergamo, including two extraordinary nocturnal, a genre in which the artist has achieved the greatest recognisability, and the large painting with Vespasian freeing Josephus Flavius from chainsfrom the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Soncino. Also on display is theIncredulity of St Thomaspaintings from the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo and two important unpublished works recently loaned.

Alongside works from Brescia and Bergamo, visitors can admire rare paintings from churches and private collections, such as Daedalus gives wings to Icarus, the Healing Tobias e Christ among the Doctorswhich recount Stom's exceptional collecting fortune in the Lombardy region. The exhibition thus becomes a journey between Rome, Naples, Palermo and Venicemilestones in the career of the painter, who was able to fuse his Nordic origin with the intensity of the Caravaggesque naturalismleaving works of extraordinary expressive power.