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Caravaggio’s Criminal Record

homunculus — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:55:13 -0800

Caravaggio's crimes exposed in Rome's police files: "Four hundred years after his death, Caravaggio is a 21st Century superstar among old master painters. His stark, dramatically lit, super-realistic paintings strike a modern chord - but his police record is more shocking than any modern bad boy rock star's. An exhibition of documents at Rome's State Archives throws vivid light on his tumultuous life here at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries." [Via] On Youtube: Simon Schama’s Power of Art: Caravaggio.

Art History in HD

gman — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:43:53 -0800

Haltadefinizione is a gallery of extremely high resolution pictures of some of the greatest art treasures.

Caravaggio and Rembrandt, two great tastes that go well together

Kattullus — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:34:08 -0800

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam invites you to compare Caravaggio and Rembrandt. For an overview of Rembrandt's work here are Rembrandt van Rijn: Life and Work and A Web Catalogue of Rembrandt Paintings. For Caravaggio there's caravaggio.com which makes use of the Italian website Tutta l'opera del Caravaggio.

Caravaggio's lost painting

matteo — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:12:49 -0800

The Caravaggio Trail: "The Lost Painting". (BugMeNot for the New York Times). more inside

The Passion of the Painters

matteo — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:55:24 -0800

Thema: Passion Very good German site with depictions of the Passion of the Christ in the history of the art, from El Greco to Antonello da Messina, from Il Guercino to Botticelli. And there also, among many others, Rembrandt and Schiele and Rubens and Caravaggio Plenty of other good links here. As Bernard Berenson wrote, "A painter’s first business is to rouse the tactile sense, for I must have the illusion... (more inside)