Name: Caravaggio's Cupid at The Wallace Collection
Start: 2025-11-26T00:00+1:00
End: 2026-04-12T23:59+1:00
Location: Caravaggio's Cupid at The Wallace Collection

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For art lovers the world over, the merest mention of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571- 1610) is enough to quicken the pulse. So, news that one of the Baroque master’s greatest paintings is coming to London next year will surely create much excitement.

Forming the central piece in a free display, Caravaggio’s celebrated Victorious Cupid (1601- 02) is a major loan from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. It is the first time the work has ever been publicly seen in the UK.

Suggesting the theme of the paragone, or comparison, a popular debate during the Italian Renaissance in which painting and sculpture were each championed as a superior art form over the other, the Caravaggio will be shown with the Wallace Collection’s own statue on the same theme, Love Triumphant after an 18th century original by Jean-Pierre Tassaert.