La maddalena del caravaggio biography

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Caravaggio, Lena and Maddalena Antognetti. A history to be rewritten*

FRANCESCA CURTI and ORIETTA VERDI

Introduction

No painter in the last and this century has attracted as much attention as Caravaggio, no one like him has been able to draw the modern viewer, more or less cultured, more or less expert, into his paintings, his compositions, his contrasts of light and shade. Undoubtedly his character and dramatic biography have played a role in bringing a character so distant from our world closer to our current way of thinking. However, as Claudio Strinati has brilliantly intuited, the contemporary attraction to Caravaggio lies in his ability to have made art a form of communication in the modern sense, to have allowed anyone, through «l’arma della dimensione autobiografica», to have access to aesthetic experience in a democratic manner. After the rediscovery of Caravaggio at the beginning of the 20th century by Lionello Venturi and Roberto Longhi, interest in the Lombard painter has continued to grow. Over the years, generations of art historians have contributed (and continue to contribute) to discovering and interpreting aspects of his life and art, analysing them, as few other artists in the history of art do, from a variety of perspectives ranging from stylistic to

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Caravaggio

Italian painter (1571–1610)

For other uses, see Caravaggio (disambiguation).

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; , ; Italian:[mikeˈlandʒelomeˈriːzida(k)karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571^[2] – 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 until his death. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.^[3][4][5]

Caravaggio employed close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro that came to be known as tenebrism. He made the technique a dominant stylistic element, transfixing subjects in bright shafts of light and darkening shadows. Caravaggio vividly expressed crucial moments and scenes, often featuring violent struggles, torture, and death. He worked rapidly with live models, preferring to forgo drawings and work directly onto the canvas. His inspiring effect on the new Baroque style that emerged from Mannerism was