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In reply to the discussion: Rejection of a Masterpiece: Death of the Virgin by Caravaggio [View all]nolabear
(41,990 posts)9. Wonderful, heartbreaking painting. Also noteworthy for her red clothing.
The Virgin Mary is almost always shown wearing blue and white in some form. The red is opulent and rich, and lends to the raw emotion of the work. This is about death, and mourning, the reality that all those Assumptions are trying mightily to deny. Reminds me of funerals that are so focused on the promise of heaven that they ignore the life and loss of the person almost entirely.
It's gorgeous.
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Well, wasn't the Louvre Napoleon's whole idea of a repository for the art he plundered?
CTyankee
Sep 2014
#18
Yep. LONG Gothic, very short Renaissance. Even shorter Mannerist (thank god)...then
CTyankee
Sep 2014
#16
I have seen some Assumptions in which Mary was dressed in red and I wondered about that...
CTyankee
Sep 2014
#11
You could do what I did and go to the library and see what books are available...they open the
CTyankee
Sep 2014
#38
OH, that breaks my heart! I hope you regain your will to paint at some point...
CTyankee
Sep 2014
#34
It was shocking to artists of his era that he did not follow Leonardo's dictum about
CTyankee
Sep 2014
#35
The Caravaggio is a wonderful painting, full of the pain and loss of death.
CaliforniaPeggy
Sep 2014
#28
Oh, I was hoping you'd drop by, Peggy! I thought of you and how you'd probably love this
CTyankee
Sep 2014
#36
When I saw Caravaggio's three Matthew series in a tiny chapel in a church in Rome
CTyankee
Sep 2014
#52
Ah! You need to write a little thesis about the echoes of Correggio in Archie Comic Books...
CTyankee
Sep 2014
#53
The art of that era seemed to depict her as younger than she actually was at her death...
CTyankee
Sep 2014
#55
You're correct. The art is fabulous, ( emotionally good) but it's that "fantasizing"
No Vested Interest
Sep 2014
#57
evidently, Caravaggio posed his compositions very carefully, with a group of models he
CTyankee
Sep 2014
#68