Caravaggio's Mean Streets the Brilliant Artist's Life Was Brutish and Short, but After 400 Years His Paintings Still Startle. By Moira Jeffrey
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FROM that day - May 28, 1606 - it was as though he was a dead man walking. He had committed a capital offence and there was a price on his head. When Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio fatally wounded another man during a duel in Rome, he put in motion a chain of events that would end either in his death or his redemption.
Somehow, as Caravaggio: The Final Years, at London's National Gallery beautifully demonstrates, he achieved both. After four years in exile in Naples, Sicily and Malta he died of a fever on his way back to Rome with a clutch of paintings and high hopes of a pardon. But the works of those last four years survived to tell us something about brutality, forgiveness and spiritual succour by a man who knew.See the full content of this document
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Caravaggio's Mean Streets the Brilliant Artist's Life Was Brutish and Short, but After 400 Years His Paintings Still Startle. By Moira Jeffrey
Caravaggio's life as brilliant artist, homosexual, street brawler, friend of whores and hustlers was nasty, brutish and shortish - he died at 39 - but after 400 years his paintings still startle wit...
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