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The life of Caravaggio

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and the art of Caravaggio

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overlap.

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It's not possible

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to understand Caravaggio's art

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if you don't
understand his life.

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You understand Caravaggio's life

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by looking at his works.

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It would seem that he always

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lived a fairly solitary life

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a bohemian life.

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He frequented
the various taverns.

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He went around with a sword,

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he liked to party.

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As far as family is concerned

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he never married

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and had no children.

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Some documents reveal that

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he did have male lovers though.

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These are quite
sporadic testimonies

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but they certainly
suggest a scenario,

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where it’s possible that he

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had lovers that were also male.

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Caravaggio reproduced
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an image he knew well.

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An image of a tavern,

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of players playing cards

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and cheating at cards.

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The important thing

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is that this painting represents

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the condemnation
of the card game.

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It depicts a young man

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being cheated by the cardsharps.

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And he shows all this

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with the typical light

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of his early artistic years.

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In those early years, Caravaggio

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made very colourful

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very bright paintings.

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Caravaggio's light
is a particular light.

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It clearly has various meanings,

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it represents
precisely the light

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that illuminates the scene

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in a theatrical way.

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But it also represents

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the light of God who redeems.

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And light represents

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Caravaggio's ally.

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Caravaggio embraced
light like a friend.

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Light allowed him to

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remove the dark,

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to eliminate the dark.

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To show the things
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The dark is like a presence,

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that he felt inside him

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He knew he was a great artist

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but also a great sinner.

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The shadow and the darkness

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increasingly dominate the light.

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The other formal aspect

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which has a great
impact on the work

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is that the stool
the saint is sitting on

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is falling towards
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It is as if the Church

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and the message of the Church

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was literally falling
into the faithfuls.

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And the faithfuls found
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in the strength of religion,

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in this case, of the
Catholic Church.

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Making them participate

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in this story of Saint Matthew

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This is a reading,
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is what Caravaggio
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The saint, and
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are engaging and
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Around 1604,

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Caravaggio paints
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the Deposition

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You can see how
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inspired by classicism.

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This work at first glance

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almost looks like a sculpture.

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We see a Christ
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that is heavy,

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and not just in spirit.

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The person who supports him

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is struggling

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and needs help from another.

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They struggle to
support this weight

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that is lowered into the grave

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like a kind of freight elevator

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because there is
that slab of stone

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on which they are standing

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which seems to be descending

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into the grave.

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It's both very realistic

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and very significant.

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Caravaggio is
representing here the fact,

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the important fact,

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the human fact,

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the tangible
human fact of death.

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The Death of the Virgin

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is an extraordinary work

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It has been called
the most religious

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painting of the
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Caravaggio made this painting

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in Rome just before

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he had to flee for his life.

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She is clearly a dead woman.

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Some have suggested
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after a drowned woman

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pulled from a river.

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The work is extraordinary

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because of the
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he adds characters,

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but there are two figures

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that are peculiar and memorable.

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One is Mary Magdalene

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who is in the foreground

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crying desperately.

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She is distraught

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in the face of death.

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She is not shown as
happy that the Virgin Mary

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has died and is on
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I believe Caravaggio

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has put his mother
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as he saw her on her deathbed.

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He paints this with love.

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So when the
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it was a very heavy blow.

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This may have
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to his agitation
that then led him

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a few months later

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to murder.

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The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula

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is a truly exceptional painting

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and probably his last.

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The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula,

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is a painting that

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fortunately we rediscovered

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only a few years ago

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The framing

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is particularly cinematic
or photographic.

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Because what do you see?

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You see the archer
killing Saint Ursula

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from very close range.

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They are almost
touching one another.

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He shoots the
arrow, she receives it

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The killer and the one killed.

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Caravaggio also puts
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even if it’s unrealistic,

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watching this murder.

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Perhaps as a witness

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and also perhaps as the victim.

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Certainly Caravaggio

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is a modern painter

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The essence of Caravaggio's art,

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the central thing is truth.

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Caravaggio

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was a great painter

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when he was alive.

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He was then imitated

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praised by young painters

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who saw his new way of painting

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that broke with the
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and therefore had
many followers.