Renaissance artist Caravaggio was killed in avenge attack by the Knights of Malta. By David Gerges Published: 00:39 GMT, 3 April 2012 | Updated: 06:46 GMT, 3 April 2012 Caravaggio was allegedly targeted by Maltese Knights The mysterious death of Italian painter Caravaggio has been attributed to lead poisoning from the oil paints he used, a fatal bout of malaria and a violent brawl amongst other theories.
But more than 400 years after his death, a professor from Italy has cast doubt over his passing in 1610. Professor Pacelli, from the University of Naples, claims that the artist was murdered by Knights of Malta in a revenge attack, according to documents that he accessed from the Vatican Secret Archives. Caravaggio who held a notorious reputation for being violent, is believed to have been targeted by the Maltese Knights after he wounded one of their fighters in an earlier brawl. And Pacelli's theory is strengthened by the Knights decision to throw his body into the sea which explains the absence of burial records and why he never afforded a funeral. " Chiaroscuro " Caravaggio by Diver & Aguilar. on the Behance Network. Carravagio As Stylist and Fashion Role Model « Pogledaj.to. A stunningly staged fashion editorial by the Spanish-British duo Divers & Aguilar clearly shows that fashion, as well as art, is timeless.
A series of photographs entitled “Chiaroscuro Caravaggio“, is a real work of art, for the most part due to the fact that the photographers “borrowed” almost all their visual inventory from the greatest and most important painter of the anti-Reformation Era, Michelangelo da Caravaggio. The editorial’s enormous success is due to its “models” themselves, nature buffs, the homeless and motorists, who ideally embodied Caravaggio’s St. Matthew and St. Peter completely by accident. The result is an interesting entwinement of The Fight Club’s esthetics and anti-Reformation! The editorial was created for the Riders Moda fashion house, and is included in the annual overview of the best photos in 2010 on the Creative Review website. Click here and have a look at Diver & Aguilar duo’s complete portfolio Petra Tomljanović TAGS: arts, fashion, painting, photography, Tiny Caravaggio self-portrait revealed by technology. It was first spotted in 1922 when the canvas was cleaned by an Italian restorer, who described the face as having "large eye sockets, a broad, slightly snub nose, and fleshy, slightly apart lips".
But the painting was then subjected to poor restoration efforts, including one in which all the dark patches on the canvas were repainted, and the image gradually darkened until it eventually became invisible to the naked eye. Experts were able to "see" through the painting with a technique called reflectography, which uses infrared technology to penetrate paint layers of different thicknesses, making the upper layers appear transparent. The results were unveiled on Friday at a conference in Florence to discuss other new discoveries about the artist's work. "After having finished processing the images using multispectral reflectography, we now have available a clear view of what the artist painted," said researcher Roberta Lapucci. "We are presenting this filtered, sharp image to the public.
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