THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC

  In this painting painted for Pope Urban VIII, Caravaggio exposes the horror of a father's willingness to sacrifice his son. The spectator assists in distress at the moment in which an angel, of human appearance, stops with an energetic gesture the hand Abraham before he slams Isaac, his firstborn,...

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THE CRUCIFIXION OF SAN PEDRO

  Roberto Longhi affirms referring to this picture of darkness and half-open just what is necessary to not lessen his tragic and virile pessimism, everything happens with an unconscious evidence that each one fulfills his task. The desolation resides in the pure and simple event ... And the saint,...

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HONESTY AND PROVOCATION

  The appearance of reality that the artist poses and resolves on the plastic space, that of the canvas, resembles reality and has often taken his models from it. For many years, the desire for perfection or compliance with the norm or simply the need to transcend the reality of the reality of...

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CONDEMNATION AND EVASION

  Caravaggio sank in the Roman night. Apparently, he killed a policeman and was imprisoned in the Tor di Noma prison from where he fled with the help of his friends. He became an outlaw who hid among criminals. Shortly afterwards, he killed a Ranuccio Tomasoni da Terni in a fight while playing...

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THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONSECRATE

  Michelangelo, remember that he had already worked in the Contarelli chapel when the Cavalier D Arpino decorated the vault, now had the mission of adorning the side walls with his canvases. Berne-Joffroy in his "Caravaggio Report" writes that "Caravaggio must have felt very intimidated and full...

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A DETERMINING MEETING

  The first religious canvas of Caravaggio is San Francisco receiving the stigmas, which some historians, such as Dominique Fernandez, consider the first and most genuine example of Baroque art. Moved by the veracity of the painting, Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, ambassador of the Duke...

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