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Michelangelo da Caravaggio – The painter of the greatest diligence in the most exquisite way
After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592. There he started to paint with both realism and psychological analysis of the sitters. Caravaggio was as temperamental in his painting as in his wild life. As he also responded to prestigious Church commissions, his dramatic style and his realism were seen as unacceptable.
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CARAVAGGIO- THE PAINTER OF PLEASURES AND TABOOS
Exhibition: Discovering Caravaggio. Technical study and restoration of Saint Catherine of Alexandria Date: From 17 December 2018 to 26 May 2019 Venue: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid Although Caravaggio and his art may have forgotten for almost three hundred years, it can safely be said that since the beginning of the 20th century this oversight has largely been compensated for. Despite his dismissal by critics (was it not Poussin who stated that he came in order to destroy painting?) and his fall into oblivion, his name seems to have reappeared in collective memory during certain periods of history. Even in his own time, a contemporary of Caravaggio, Giovanni Baglione recognised the artist’s…






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