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CARAVAGGIO: THE DUALITY OF BEAUTY & RUIN
Caravaggio’s faces, images and sensations are those of today, having far more immediacy, cutting edge and brute realism than anything by Damien Hirst or recent Turner Prize winners. Caravaggio was obsessed with the violence of life and painted the violence … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alex Russell, Andrew Marr, Canova, Damien Hirst, David Eskerdjian, David Hockney, Donald Posner, E.H. Gombrich, Egon Schiele, Genevieve Warwick, Giovanni Baglione, Helen Langdon, Howard Hibbard, Jacques-Louis David, John Varriano, Joseph Phelan, Jules Janick, Leo Bersoni, Libby Anson, Michelangelo, Nicola Hodge, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Robb, Richard Spear, Ulysse Dutoit
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OBSESSION WITH VITALITY & DEATH: "CONNOISSEUR OF VIOLENCE"
Caravaggio’s novelty was a radical naturalism which combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical, use of Tenebrism, the shift from light to dark with little intermediate value. He burst upon the Rome art scene in 1600 with the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andrew Marr, Barnaby Wright, Caravaggio, Charles H. Carman, David Hockney, Donald Posner, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Dr. Steven Zucker, Genevieve Warwick, Giovanni Baglione, Helen Langdon, Howard Hibbard, John House, John Varriano, Joseph Phelan, Jules Janick, Leo Bersoni, Leonardo Da Vinci, Libby Anson, Luke Walladge, Nicola Hodge, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Robb, Richard Spear, Roger Hinks, Roger P. Hinks, Ulysse Dutoit
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REALITY CHECK: AT THE NEXUS OF DEATH & LOVE
“The religion whose savior is born in the humblest circumstances, who during his three year pubic ministry consorted mainly with lowlifes, criminals, publicans and the possessed and whose harrowing death on the cross was, in the words of St. Paul, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andrew Marr, Charles H. Carman, Charlie Rose, Courbet, David Hockney, Donald Posner, Dr. Barnaby Wright, Genevieve Warwick, Giovanni Baglione, Helen Langdon, Howard Hibbard, John Varriano, Jules Janick, Leo Bersoni, Libby Anson, Nicola Hodge, Peter Robb, Philip Neri, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Phelan, Richard Spear, Roger P. Hinks, Thomas Nashe, Ulysse Dutoit, Velazquez, Walter F. Friedlaender
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EROS RUNNING WILD:CARDINAL SINS & LEGAL RUN-INS
“Indeed, Caravaggio may be indicating his taste for homoerotic subjects through his androgynous male figures, figures at once muscular and yet recognizably “feminine” in some of their poses and expressions. Since antiquity, the androgynous had been associated with effeminacy and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andrew Marr, Bernard Berenson, Caravaggio, Charles H. Carman, David Hockney, Donald Posner, Genevieve Warwick, Giovanni Baglione, Helen Langdon, Howard Hibbard, Ingres, John House, John Varriano, Joseph Phelan, Jules Janick, Leo Bersoni, Libby Anson, Marcel Proust, Nicola Hodge, Ottavio Leoni, Peter Robb, Philip Neri, R. Blade, Richard Spear, Roger Hinks, Roger P. Hinks, Thomas Nashe, Ulysse Dutoit
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CONTESTS BETWEEN LIGHT AND GLOOM
The word ‘spectacular’ is not amiss because, although Caravaggio aimed at total realism, he wanted drama too. It was the secret of his instant, direct appeal to the Church, to collectors, to fellow artists, to the public, then and since. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andrew Marr, Annibale Carracci, Antonio Campi, Benvenuto Cellini, Bernard Berenson, David Hockney, Donald Posner, E.H. Gombrich, Genevieve Warwick, Giovanni Baglione, Helen Langdon, Howard Hibbard, Jacopo Bassano, John Varriano, Joseph Phelan, Jules Janick, Libby Anson, Lorenzo Lotto, Nicola Hodge, Peter Robb, R. Blade, Richard Spear, Rob Tilmans, Roger Hinks, Roger P. Hinks, Simone Peterzano, Titian, Walter F. Friedlaender
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THREADS OF HORROR FROM THE "EVIL GENIUS"
“What in effect Caravaggio is doing systematically and deliberately, for the first time in the history of art, is destroying the space between the event in the painting and the people looking at it…” “Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610) … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Bernard Berenson, Caravaggio, Charles Baudelaire, David Eskerdjian, Donald Posner, Duke of Mantua, E.H. Gomrich, George Kubler, Giovanni Baglione, Hermann Voss, Howard Hibbard, Leo Bersoni, Libby Anson, Mannerism, Mannerism painting, Mattia Preti, Michelangelo, Modigliani, Nicola Hodge, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Roger Hinks, Roger P. Hinks, Ulysse Dutoit, Velazquez, Vicencio Carducho, Vincent Van Gogh, Vincente Carducho
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