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Caravaggio is considered one of the greatest and most influential artists in history, but his genius had an extremely dark side.
Caravaggio's Criminal History: The Painter Was Guilty of Many Transgressions, Including Murder | Suite101.com
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Misreading Visual Evidence ~ No 1: David Hockney, an art historian and an x-ray photograph
Caravaggio: Cardsharps (1595) - Great Works - Art
With this petty crime scene, Cardsharps, the young Caravaggio invented a genre of trickery pictures. The cast is minimal: two cheats and one dupe.
Caravaggio's Narcissus makes splash in Havana - Art - Arts & Entertainment
Narcissus, painted from 1597 to 1599, shows the handsome youth bent over a pool, eyes locked on his own reflection. A dozen other paintings by Caravaggio's followers are also in the exhibit at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, which runs until November 27. Caravaggio "couldn't have a better surrounding than this," said Rosella Vodret, the head if the Polo Museale of the city of Rome, which is presenting the exhibition in Havana as part of a cultural initiative.
No, this is a quite arresting depiction of life dragged in from the street. This is a quartet of ordinary men, day labourers, street loungers, bar proppers, pressed into service in exchange for a sweaty palmful of scudi, hustled into a studio brightly lit with torches, by some painter with a slightly manic, homo-erotic gleam in his eye.
Great Works: Crucifixion of St Peter, 1601 (230cm x 175cm), Caravaggio - Great Works - Art
Caravaggio Biography | artble.com
After the death of his father, Caravaggio's mother moved her family back to the small town from where the artist got his name.Caravaggio
With most artists we know about their lives and personalities from biographies that friends or contemporaries wrote about them. In the case of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, however, we know about his life primarily from police records! From these accounts, we learn that he had a bad temper and could be violent, and that he was frequently arrested and imprisoned for assault.
18 February 2011 Last updated at 07:58 ET By David Willey BBC News, Rome Continue reading the main story
Caravaggio's crimes exposed in Rome's police files
Beheading of St. John the Baptist
There are two paintings by Caravaggio in Malta – St. Jerome Writing (above) , a quiet, dark portrait of the saint waking up in the middle of the night to jot something down, and the massive, magnificent Beheading of St.
I'm in Palermo, where the presence and influence of La Cosa Nostra (the Sicilian mafia, literally translated as "Our Thing") is still considered impressive. There once was a great Caravaggio painting to see here, "Nativity with Saints Francis and Lawrence," but it has now been undergroud for 41 years. Some claim the painting was burned in the 1980s after being stored in a barn and badly eaten by rats and pigs .
The Caravaggio Mafia Heist
Death Scene
I had a terrific trip to the coast yesterday to investigate the scene of Caravaggio's final days.April 2011
I'm in Palermo, where the presence and influence of La Cosa Nostra (the Sicilian mafia, literally translated as "Our Thing") is still considered impressive. There once was a great Caravaggio painting to see here, "Nativity with Saints Francis and Lawrence," but it has now been undergroud for 41 years. Some claim the painting was burned in the 1980s after being stored in a barn and badly eaten by rats and pigs .In 1610, Caravaggio—at his time an eminent Italian Baroque painter, most recognizable for an uncanny portrait of Medusa —died under mysterious circumstances at the peak of his infamy.