Il Foglio: Teologia e politica nel San Matteo di Caravaggio e nella Fucina di Velazquez
Teologia e politica nel San Matteo di Caravaggio e nella Fucina di Velazquez
Ho appena rivisto al Prado uno dei più bei quadri del mondo, la fucina di Vulcano di Velazquez. Che abbia a che fare con Caravaggio, in particolare col Caravaggio di San Luigi dei Francesi che ...
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio[a] (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 [3] – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a ...
Caravaggio (1571–1610) was a leading Italian painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who became famous for the intense and unsettling realism of his large-scale religious works.
Caravaggio was famed for his ability to create paintings that accentuated the contrast between light and darkness, which plainly represent good and evil in many of his most famous works. In 1599, he completed one of his most notable pieces, Judith Beheading Holofernes, which the artist named Judith Beheading Holofernes. The picture is based on the Old Testament tale of Judith slaying the ...
Caravaggio was probably the most revolutionary artist of his time, for he abandoned the rules that had guided a century of artists who had idealized both the human and religious experience. He can be said almost single-handedly to have created the Baroque style. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio, was born in Milan, and his father worked as an architect for the ...