Caravaggio taught me that the true artist must be brave and reckless – that he must step outside comfort, hold his gaze steady, and look where others look away. He was a drunkard, a brawler, almost certainly a killer, and unquestionably that rare thing: a genius. He stole my heart. I was fifteen when I […]
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THE LAST CARAVAGGIO
The National Gallery in London had no idea when they titled their summer show ‘The Last Caravaggio’ that another painting by the Renaissance renegade had mysteriously appeared. Crowds lined up across Trafalgar Square to file into a darkened room to see ‘The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula,’ painted 1610 and thought to be the last Caravaggio […]