451 STATE St. - Room 335
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
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Caravaggio:

A New Interpretation of his Paintings
A slide presentation with an introduction
and comments

Presented by
Valeriano Ugolini, MA

Valeriano Ugolini, MA In December 2001, defended his Master’s thesis in Art History at Brigham Young University. For this thesis, Valeriano approached an unusual subject: interpreting the paintings of Caravaggio to reveal meanings diametrically opposed to the actual image on the canvas. This lead him to discover a never-before-explored world that both disconcerted and excited the faculty of his thesis committee. During his presentation, Valeriano will share some of his findings, using new keys of interpretation. He will also discuss the late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century milieu in Italy after the Tridentine Reforms.

Valeriano Ugolini was born in the tiny village of Montalbo in northern Italy. As a young man he studied for the Catholic priesthood in the Vatican. At the age of 16, he left Rome and returned home to Milan, Italy. Valeriano immigrated to Utah with his family in 1991. He is also a painter, who had his first one-man show at the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU in April 2005. He has won awards in competitions at the Springville Art Museum, and at the Schorr Gallery in West Jordan. He has also had paintings shown at the Museum of Church History and Art as part of its triennial International Art Competition.

He is married to Carolyn Bennett, and they have two daughters, and one grandson. He is known in his community as an artist who uses a symbolic way of representing the scriptures. His paintings are journeys into spiritual worlds, which whisper esoteric messages through essential forms and brilliant colors. His pieces emerge as alchemical compositions through the juxtaposition of recurring symbols representing the relationship of the human and divine.

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