His name is Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio.
He is birth to Milan of 29 September , 1571 in a family of modest social condition , the father Fermo Merisi by architect craft and the mother Lucia Aratori.
Celebrity or painter ? How we can known him?
Painter, one of most greatest of renaissance art, he studies between Milan and Venice , activating in art to Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily is famous in all world. Aggressive, jailed , adorated, lovely of women, privileged, protect of high nobility , the popes, the princes , condemned to death, at the end a man that lives between the life and the death.
He is liable by homicide , condemned to death, lives in constant escape, there are the crucial date for his art and life.
The style, artistic formation?
He studies the painting to Simone Peterzano’s workshop, a painter of Lombard mannerism and Giuseppe Cesari’s workshop, frequented to Lombard and Veneto school ,the stylistic links are with the great Veneto’ school by Giorgione , Tiziano and Tintoretto.
A style that influence directly or indirectly the painting of successive century development a new current named “ caravaggismo”, that starts the lightly revolution , characterized naturalist.
The work and his vision?
He start in decorations engravings to Olgiati Chapel in church by Saint Prassede to Rome , from cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte , Michele( Caravaggio) take a god state , he comes honored in educated men’s house, crossing to intern of more important salons of high roman nobility. In times he change the style abandoned the painting of little dimensions realizing the complex works with the groups of more personages; example: “Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto “, one of the first works.
He exalts in style and thematic, describe the physic, human state , emotive, dramatic using the light with the new relief of baroque painting .
Among the painters he make known with the works to intern from Chapel Contrarelli nella chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi a Roma, dipinti di San Matteo, Vocazione, il Martirio, Natività con i santi, Lorenzo e Francesco d’ Assisi, basilica di Santa Maria del Popolo con la Crocifissione di San Pietro, Conversione di San Paolo, San Matteo e L’ angelo, Morte della Vergine, Amor vincit omnia, Cattura di Cristo, Cena in Emmaus, Flagellazione di Cristo, Giuditta che decapita Olofrene, Sacra famiglia con San Giovanni Battista, Salomè con la testa di Golia, Crocifissione di San Andrea, Sette opere di misericordia, Decapitazione di San Giovanni Battista, Seppellimento di Santa Lucia, Resurrezione di Lazzaro, Adorazione dei pastori, Natività con i Santi Lorenzo e Francesco d ‘ Assisi, David con la testa di Golia, Negazione di San Pietro, il San Giovanni Battista, Salomè con la testa del Battista, Martirio di sant’ Orsola, Fanciullo con canestro di frutta, I Bari, Buona ventura, il Concerto, Deposizione, San Gerolamo scrivendo…
The turbulence life: He comes arrested for possess by abusive arms , injuries to city guards , homicide in Campo Marzio , condemned to decapitation , saved by Prince Fillipo I Colonna entering as big master by knight’s order by Saint Giovanni obtained the immunity, continue arguing with the knight superior , with the new condemned to death, that are revoked by Pope Paolo V.
The expresses in Caravaggio’s art ?
The think of death is dominated as to Michelangelo Buonarroti( the death is the liberation, the death is the fine and the enigma of tomb).
In David with the head by Golia he search a cohabitation between the life and the death , the painting is a macabre self- portrait by Caravaggio ( the head cut).
A man, an artist at limit between the life and the death!
The naturalism express is for give the form and the body that are evidenced from particular lightly when out suddenly of dark of the scene with the dramatic realism , with the religious and social motive. The models are lightly only in part median by grazing light evidence the scene, the contrasts by lights and shadows with the intensity of gests by personages.
Among the works are choose the young subjects seductive indented to play a instrument, to eat a fruit( Bacco, Fanciullo con canestro di frutta, il Concerto)the people of street , prostitutes, place of frequented him: taverns, brothels, places of bad affairs by city.
His style influences the modern painter , conferring development for successive baroque art , the artists are obscurants of his geniality: Bartolomeo Manfredi, Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, Giovanni Serotine Georges de la Tour, Diego Velasques, Rubens , Antoon van Dyck, David, Goya…
The critics?
In painting exalts the poverty of few personages leaves the idealization of beauty and the compositional perfection .
An other, of part by Nicolas Poussin “ He is been came for destroy the painting”, a judgement on his cruel kind of representation the personages.
His death is suspected , in divers cases; the first comes under the form of a intestinal infection to Porta Ercole , where is curated inutility by a local confraternity , bury in commune pit in Saint Sebastian’s cemetery obtained from beach of strangers.( Today to Porta Ercole comes him made a monument).
The second case comes as a assassinate of emissary of knights by Malta.
The year of death comes registered in 1571 year of 29 September .
His painting raises with the great realism to reproducing the figures, the monochrome background , all are lightly by a violent light.
The syntonic enters in personages , the pathetic in life and death with varies history by love.
A man that live with the intensity, a artist protect for his art, in same times is lovely and despised.
Celebrity in art, enigmatic between the life and the death.
Lovely of women until the sacrifice.
Sensible in art, pure in love, dignified in the face of death.
Talented is been his luck.
He loved the commune people , they is been his personages presents in paintings , transformed of his panel in great works.
Ironic, aggressive , loved the life, a free man in art, and genial.
His life is a gamble , between the life and the death.
In art remains always present, as winner.
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