Italian embassy in Moscow displays Caravaggio painting

(AGI) Moscow, Sept 4 - Caravaggio's "Boy Bitten by a Lizard" isto go on display at the Italian embassy in Moscow. The paintingwill be presented by Italian ambassador Cesare Maria Ragagliniand the director of the Pushkin Museum, Marina Loshak. Theywill be joined by the director of the Longhi Foundation, MariaCristina Bandera, and the curators of the exhibit, MinaGregori, president of the Longhi Foundation, and VictoriaMarkova, researcher and conservator of Italian paintings at thePushkin Museum. After the exhibition, Caravaggio's masterpiecewill move to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, where itwill be displayed from Sept. 15 to Jan. 10 as part of"Caravaggio and His Disciples: works from the Pushkin Museum ofFine Arts and the Roberto Longhi Foundation collections".(AGI). .