in Italy
The real giant of seventeenthcentury painting
is
Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio after his native town in
Lombardy. After studying with an obscure local master, he arrived in
Rome around 1590. Considered a revolutionary painter Caravaggio
was the leading artist of the Naturalistic School. He lived on the
fringe of respectable society. His short life was marked by violence
and disaster. Caravaggio was a lifelong rebel against convention. He
shocked conventional people by representing religious scenes in
terms of daily life. He was in chronic trouble with authority and had
to flee Rome in 1606 after he killed a man in a brawl over a tennis
match. During the next years he wandered around Italy. Caravaggio
died of malaria in his thirtyseventh year on his return journey to
Rome, with a papal pardon in sight. Nevertheless the style of this
unruly genius revolutionized European art.
Встречи в Музее. Караваджо.
Calling of Saint Matthew
(15991600)
The greatest of these is the Calling of Saint
Matthew (Призвание апостола Матфея),
painted about 15991600, an event often
represented but never in this soulstirring way.
The background is a wall in a Roman tavern;
a window is the only visible background object.
Matthew is seated «at the receipt of custom»
(Matthew 9:9) with three gaudily
dressed youths at a rough table on which coins
are visible; figures and objects are painted in a
firm style that seems to deny the very existence
of Venetian colourism. Suddenly, Christ appears
at the right, saying, «Follow me». His figure is
almost hidden by that of Peter. Christ shows only
his face and his right hand, illuminated by a
strong light from an undefined source at the
hard,
upper right.
Встречи в Музее. Караваджо.
Conversion of Saint Paul
In
painted
1601 Caravaggio
the
Conversion of Saint Paul. It was a favourite
subject during the CounterReformation. This
scene was usually shown with a vision of
Christ descending from heaven, surrounded by
clouds and angels. Against a background of
nowhere Saul has fallen from his horse toward
us, drastically foreshortened. He hears the
words; but his servant hears nothing and looks
down at his master unable to account for the
light that shines all around and has blinded
Saul. In this picture climax reaches the stage of
cataclysm.
Встречи в Музее. Караваджо.
Creation of Adam
Despite his oftexpressed contempt for Renaissance masters, Caravaggio often
visually, as if in a vernacular translation, quoted Michelangelo BuonarrotI.
Christ points along the beam of light with a strikingly real hand whose gesture
repeats that of God the Father in the Creation of Adam (Сотворение Адама).
Matthew points to his own breast as if to say, «Who, me?» In this realistic scene
happens the triumph of divine love. Christ instils a new soul in Matthew.
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