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In reply to the discussion: Rejection of a Masterpiece: Death of the Virgin by Caravaggio [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)23. Keep up keeping up.
You bring art to DU like nobody here brings politics. It is a love, a passion born of experience as well as...well, a passion. We all learn more by each one of your Friday posts.
I will never rise to your level of appreciation of art. However, I treasure your weekly posts, as do many other DUers. (Pun intended.)
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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