Caravaggio - A life sacred and profane 3rd November 2021
Caravaggio: A life sacred and profane 3rd November 2021. Andrew Graham Dixon from Scotland. Painting of the painting of Christ whre he met a lady whose great grand father acquired a Caravaggio which is worth 41M pounds and now is at the Jesuit college in Dublin and then moved to Ireland's National Gallery. There will be breaks. Caravagio makes many enemies soon after leaving Rome. He paints comissions, among one one for a cardinal, the last soup at the National Gallery. This is not painting, this is life perpetuated - Luis Ortega and Gassete. That's how Andrew feels about this painting: In their way to Emaus, two disciples met Jesus. That is what he paints in this painting. He reverses to a bizantine image of Christ (late Roman), Christ is depicted as if he were Apollo (without a beard, Jesus appear in an unfamiliar form at that time). They go to dinner together and they eat a meal. Bellori ciritizes this picture, lacking in decorum, the inkeeper has the hat on. These thre...