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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was a boldly original artist who led a short and violent life. His sexually provocative nude figures and his dramatic religious paintings have a psychological power and an undiminished capacity to shock and disturb after almost four centuries. Timothy Wilson-Smith provides a lively and readable biography of an artist who has become an iconic figure in the late twentieth century, and presents a memorable selection of his works, from his early genre pictures to the dark and intense religious paintings of his years in exile. No library descriptions found. |
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Edit: Disappointed (to say the least) in the authors assertion that "It has become commonplace of modern criticism to see Caravaggio as a member of some homosexual set", then goes on to dismiss the written record that he quite possibly had a catamite and the fact that the boy in Amor Vincit Omnia is quite literally stepping out of a bed naked. He continues to argue that the focus of the aforementioned painting is instead the scientific tools he is stepping over, with Mr. Smith seeming to forget the erotic connotations of compasses and other wares at this time period in Italy, and the abundance of contemporary poetry written on it. Reminds me of words from a wonderful article:
Oh well, I was here for the pictures... ( )