29 September 2014

Happy birthday, Caravaggio.

Caravaggio, Bacchus, 1571


Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was born on this date in 1571.


There was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same.

Robert Hughes

"Caravaggio," from Simon Schama's documentary, The Power of Art




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