Dateline: 17 September 2026, Derry, Northern Ireland.

We left Washington, DC two days ago and are enjoying cool and breezy weather in Derry, County Derry, Northern Ireland with warm hospitality from cousins Mary and Tony Furey.

We will take this opportunity to describe to you an overview of our Caravaggio itinerary for the coming month.

Note that this is a simplified itinerary that doesn’t show travel days, train, bus or plane details or intermediate stops (and there are many). Bold italics designate paintings by Caravaggio that we hope to see.

16 – 19 Sept. Derry, Northern Ireland: family visit.

20 Sept. Dublin, Ireland: National Gallery of Ireland, The Taking of Christ 1602

21-22 Sept. Malta: St John Co-Cathedral, Saint Jerome Writing 1607-8; Beheading of Saint John the Baptist 1608

24-25 Agrigento, Sicily: Valley of the Temples, an amazing array of ancient Greek temples

27-29 Siracusa, Sicily: Santa Lucia alla Badia, Burial of Saint Lucy 1608

30 Sept Cefalú, Sicily: Mosaic of Christ in the Arab-Norman-Byzantine Duomo (cathedral)

1 Oct Messina, Sicily: Museo Regionale, Resurrection of Lazarus 1609; Adoration of the Shepherds 1609

2-3 Oct Naples, Italy: Museo di Capodimonte, Flagelation of Christ 1607; Palazzo Zevallos, Saint Ursula 1610; Pio Monte della Misericordia, Seven Works of Mercy 1607

4-11 Oct Rome, Italy: San Luigi dei Francesi, The Calling of Saint Matthew 1599-1600; The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew 1599-1600; Saint Matthew and the Angel 1602; Sant’ Agostino, Madonna of Loreto 1604-6; Galleria Dorii Pamphilj, Rest on the Flight to Egypt 1597; Penitent Mary Magdalene 1597; Palazzo Barberini, Judith Beheading Holofernes 1598-9; Saint Francis in Prayer 1606; Narcissus 1599; Monsignor Maffeo Barberini 1598; Museo Capitolini, The Fortune Teller 1594; John the Baptist 1602; Santa Maria del Popolo, Conversion of Saint Paul 1601; Crucifixion of Saint Peter 1601; Pinacoteca Vaticana, Entombment of Christ 1603-4; Galleria Borghese, Boy with a Basket of Fruit 1593-4; Young Sick Bacchus 1593; Saint John the Baptist 1604; David with the Head of Goliath 1609-10; Saint Jerome Writing 1605-6; Madonna and Child with Saint Anne 1605-6.

12-14 Oct Sligo, Ireland: family visit

15 Oct Return to Washington, DC

Michaelangelo Merisi di Caravaggio was born in Caravaggio, not far from Milan, in 1571 and died in Porto Ercole in 1610 at the age of 39. Our itinerary includes 30 of the approximately 65 to 70 extant works wordwide that are generally accepted as attributable to him.

The earliest of his works we will see is Young Sick Bacchus 1693, painted at age 22. The latest painting we will see is Saint Ursula 1610, the year of the end of his short and violently turbulent life.

We look forward to that which we may learn from this Camino.