Amorino dormiente by Caravaggio On display in Lampedusa until October 3
The Amorino Dormiente (Sleeping Cupid) by Caravaggio, which is normally exposed at Pitti Palace in the Palatine Gallery, that has been in Florence since 1667, when it was purchased by Cardinal Leopoldo de’ Medici, is among the masterpieces on display in the exhibition opened last June 3rd in Lampedusa, with the participation of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and of the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, at the “Museo del Dialogo e della Fiducia per il Mediterraneo” (Museum of Dialogue and Trust for the Mediterranean).
