The sixth and at the same time the last show of the /Geniuses and Masterpieces/ exhibition series will feature Caravaggio's masterpiece David with the Head of Goliath arriving for the special occasion from Rome, The Palazzo Borghese.

The show is going to be an exclusive event since none of Caravaggio's works have ever been seen in Hungary previously. The simplicity of everyday life is a message that brings Caravaggio's realism close to the spirit of the art of Rembrandt born more than a generation later.

Despite that and despite his often brutal naturalism, Caravaggio's works faithfully preserve the discipline, harmony, monumentalness and pathos of composition, a feature of the classical tradition present from Giotto through Masaccio to Raphael and Michelangelo. His works are pathetic but their pathos is down-to-earth and devoid of rhetoric. The unique appeal of the highlight of the present exhibition - /David with the Head of Goliath/ - lies in its pathos devoid of superfluity, its simplicity and truthfulness, in the merging of classical "Latin tradition" and uncompromising naturalism.

The paintings on display at the thematic exhibition feature various biblical characters and stories. The Biblical themes starting with David's figure all share the topics of fighting, life-and-death struggle, violence as their common feature.