India, March 11 -- This piece of news needs no clever, artful opening. It is simply unprecedented. Until now, we Delhiwale would have to visit foreign museums to admire the works of great European painters. Delhi has never had the privilege of hosting such icons. But now, a Caravaggio will land at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in a special aircraft.
The Italian Embassy's Cultural Centre in Delhi has pulled off an ambitious enterprise, of getting an original work by one of the western civilisation's most brilliant and controversial artists to our city. Painted by Caravaggio around 1600, the privately owned 'Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy' has just been exhibited in a Beijing museum. On its return journey to Rome, the painting is to make...