"The Thyssen Museum is putting on an exhibition about the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio and his influence on a group of painters from Northern Europe who, fascinated by his work, spread his style through their creations. This collection of works highlights the legacy of the artist from Lombardy, considered the first great exponent of Baroque painting. A journey through the artistic career of Caravaggio through a collection of pieces from his Roman period up to the dark paintings of his later years, together with a selection of works by his most prominent followers in Holland, Flanders, and France, such as Dirk van Baburen, Hendrick Ter Brugghen, David de Haen and Gerrit van Honthorst, Nicolas Régnier and Louis Finson, and Simon Vouet, Claude Vignon, Nicolas Tournier and Valentin de Boulogne."--[esmadrid.com].

Catalog of an exhibition by the same name held June 21 through September, 2016, at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Caravaggio and the painters of the North /Gert Jan van der Sman -- Northern artists in Vincenzo Giustiniani's palazzo : living in a baroque palace in Rome, 1600-38 / Francesca Cappelletti -- Dutch Caravaggists in Rome / Giovanna Capitelli -- The art of invention after Caravaggio : "dal naturale" audacity in the work of the "forestieri" in Rome / Annick Lemoine -- Louis Finson, Matthias Stom and Hendrick De Somer : three "pittori fiamminghi" in seventeenth-century Naples / Marije Osnabrugge -- Catalogue. Caravaggio in Rome ; The first admirers : Adam Elsheimer and Peter Paul Rubens ; Artists and art lovers : quadri da stanza and quadri d'altare ; Hendrick ter Brugghen and the Utrecht school of painting ; The French painters im Rome ; Naples and Southern Italy : late Caravaggio and his followers -- Caravaggio : lights and shadows : a biography / Dolores Delgado.