The findings will be revealed on Friday with the worldwide
release of a 600-page, two-part e-book published in four
languages. Researchers and historians who have searched for
undiscovered traces of Caravaggio now have a dossier packed with
early sketches and several paintings from the workshop of
mannerist painter Simone Peterzano, Caravaggio's master from
1584 to 1588. "We always felt it was impossible that Caravaggio
left no record, no studies in the workshop of a painter as
famous as his mentor," Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz Guerrieri,
artistic director for the Brescia Museum Foundation, told ANSA
in an exclusive interview. Bernardelli along with co-researcher
Adriana Conconi Fedrigolli were given access to over 1,000
pieces found in Peterzano's workshop collection in the Castello
Sforzesco in the northern city of Milan. For two years they
examined Caravaggio's works in churches and museums to develop a
rigorous survey methodology for identifying underlying geometric
patterns from the artist's career, focus