Playlist Yesterday's Art For Today's Music: Rome, Borghese Gallery.
My Sharona, written by Douglas Lars Fieger and Berton Averre, performed by The Knack

(By ANSA, "National Associated Press Agency")

The portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, a masterpiece by Caravaggio, never before exhibited to the public, returns home and is shown for the first time in all its surprising beauty.
The impatient look, the half-open mouth, the hand clutching a letter and that almost sudden gesture, with the other, almost as if to give an order outside the canvas.
From 23 November 2024 to 23 February 2025 it will be exhibited in the Paesaggi Room of Barberini Palace, with an operation entitled "Caravaggio, the portrait revealed", the result of a surprising loan from the private collection to which it has belonged since the 1960s.
“It is the painting by Caravaggio that everyone has wanted to see for years. It has never been exhibited, lent, or the subject of exhibitions", says the director of the National Galleries of Ancient Art, Thomas Clement Salomon, who signs the curatorship together with Paola Nicita.
As for the work, says Nicita, "it is not a rediscovered painting, it has been known since the 1960s, but since then it had only been seen by five or six specialists. Not to mention - he adds - that Caravaggio's portraits are very rare, some have been lost, others have never been traced".
Here, the monsignor is portrayed in his thirties, with a cap and cassock in shades of green, over a pleated white robe. In the foreground, a roll of documents resting on the armchair, in those contrasts between light and dark and in the diagonal lines of the figure, which are the hallmarks of Caravaggio's autograph.
But beyond the wonder, the exhibition is also an opportunity to untie some "knots". "First of all, the dating - he explains - And then the provenance".


In the video:
0:00 The single “My Sharona” was released almost all over the world with this cover. The girl holding the first album of the American band “The Knack” is Sharona Alperin, at the time the girlfriend of Douglas Fieger, frontman of the band and co-author of the song with the other guitarist, Berton Averre.
0:30 By Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio, portrait of Maffeo Barberini, future Pope Urban VIII, here about thirty years old monsignor; it is owned by a private Florentine collector and by him lent for the first time to a museum. If you are passionate about Caravaggio art and you are in Rome before February 23, 2025, do not miss this unique event.
3:01 In Corsini Gallery (same entrance ticket as Palazzo Barberini, read the playlist descriptions) another portrait of Monsignor Maffeo attributed to Caravaggio, painted in the same period (1598?), is permanently exhibited; It will be up to the experts to confirm its authenticity by comparing the two paintings.
4:05 The album “Get the Knack” reached the first place in the charts of the USA, Canada and Australia, 11th in Italy. From this album I recorded this video for you, better preserved than the single.

For this video a little different from the playlist and probably “temporary”, until the painting returns to Florence, I chose a song that is well known but I don’t think an Italian version has ever been published. The single entered the charts of the USA, Canada and Australia at first place, in Italy at second, in New Zealand third, in the UK sixth, in Spain and Switzerland seventh. Of all the artists who have performed the song, Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic, accordionist, singer-songwriter, actor and comedian, wrote and performed the first parody accompanying himself with only the accordion, "My Bologna", something Italian must always enter into it:
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