Dissertativas 36 - 2ª Fase - Dia 2 - Unesp 2025

Leia o texto para responder, em português, às questões 35 e 36.

Caravaggio’s lost masterpiece

In 2024, on May 27, “Ecce Homo” — Latin for “watch the man” — is shown in public for the first time since Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, painted it four centuries ago. The painting, of Christ being exhibited before his crucifixion, spent all those years in private hands, and was eventually misattributed to an obscure artist rather than to the Italian Baroque master.

Only in 2021, when an auction house in Madrid put the scratched and worn-out work under the hammer with a starting bid of just €1,500 (US$1,627), did the city’s Prado National Museum call in experts to check its provenance. They were unanimous: this was a lost work by Caravaggio, whose paintings are prized for their rarity — barely 60 have survived — as much as for their quality. A British art collector bought “Ecce Homo” for €36 million and has loaned the now-restored painting to the Prado until October 2024.

(Brooke Unger. https://view.e.economist.com, 27.05.2024. Adaptado.)

a) De acordo com o segundo parágrafo, qual foi o lance inicial estabelecido pelo leiloeiro em Madri em 2021? O que fez o Museu Nacional do Prado com relação ao quadro colocado em leilão?

b) Cite dois fatores, mencionados no segundo parágrafo, que contribuem para a valorização das obras de Caravaggio. O que fez o colecionador de arte britânico após arrematar a obra no leilão por 36 milhões de euros?