Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) remains one of the most controversial and influential figures in the history of art. His canvases, charged with violence and ecstasy, brought biblical stories down from heaven and into the grit of everyday life. He painted saints with dirty feet, virgins with weary faces, apostles with the weathered skin ofContinue reading “Caravaggio: Darkness, Light, and the Drama of a Life in Paint”
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