I dont know. I feel like I know more about lizards, but not much about Caravaggio

He is certainly the greatest painter of christian art,the second is El Greco in my opinion. People talk about Rembrandt but i find him boring,too bourgeois northern european protestant sensibility,aesthetics. Caravaggio move and excite you like few others

My daughter and I did a tour of Italy in 2007 and this church was the first we went into. And yes it was jaw dropping. I'll never forget going through that door and being totally immersed in history. Just wonderful.

And so murderous ha. He was a product of the times I guess. Italy, espec. Rome was a den of sin and opportunists. The Borgia family is a perfect 'bad' example of what he grew up with. Incl. The crooked Italian popes. So I understand. He ld paint but he wasn't a nice guy. Nope

Years back I went to an exhibit of Caravaggio's paintings at LACMA. My jaw dropped at the sight of the first painting and remained dropped through the whole show..... fortunately there were many other dropped jaws walking around so I wasn't too conspicuous 😮 I had never seen anything like it, haven't since.

True! I tried to watch a Perspective where he wasn't the host. It was incredibly boring which is quite surprising since it was on Dali. Waldemar is not only knowledgable but a natural storyteller.

Exactly ! He brings such passion and insight to every subject that he's mesmerizing

I guess art history is kind of like watching paint dry, or rather dried 🤔

Funny guy!!

Honestly, no. His whole thing is that he picks the most interesting bits and makes it understandable and approachae for everyone.

Our world of video screens doesn't handle the dark end of the brightness spectrum well. Painters have no such limitation. They can really play in the shadows in a way that a film director can't.

You stole my thunder, Paul.🙄

Since i was in college..and im pushing 80...they finally have people who know what they are talking.about...u would. Not believe the bullshit i was taught about every single painting he.covered...and of.course u HAD to.agree with the idiot.professor.or u.failed

Do you know what his name is?

@@miguelsandigo1755 His name is Waldemar Januszczak. He was the host for numerous Perspective programs on art history and every one of them is engaging and enjoyable. He brings a real talent to each episode and writes them as well as hosting.

I love him.

I can't pronounce his name, but I love him.

@@elirien4264 I can but I call him Voldemort or Walmart. I love him too.

I never understood why there has not been a movie about him

​@@archiedriver😂

​​@@archiedriver There has: Derek Jarman made a fascinating film, with Nigel Terry as Caravaggio and Tilda Swinton as Lena. I loved it and would recommend it, if you can find it Edit: You probably know this by now, and may have seen it!

oh so want to find that@@eshaibraheem4218

And there were great composers who committed murder -the most prominent being Carlo Gesualdo a near contemporary of Caravaggio who had his wife and her lover murdered.A later one who committed murder was Stradella.

The Cardinal collected "castratos".

Gibberish

Well, Zeus didn't drink that much...

Well, more like Jupiter.

Grande alliteration , it's fun - when understanding works - and like origami - they pop into 3 d -. Oh ! " Tramps like us ,baby! We were born to run "

Fever from infection & heat stroke would surely have caused erratic behavior. Not discounting the lead poisoning theory though, it can mimic a lot of things & can also be fatal. What a sad life for such a big talent.

What makes you think like this ?

He's no lord, but he ought to be an OBE.

Benevenuto wrote a biography, super cool read

Well... many artists have been more or less involved in crimes..In France Bertrand Cantat, famous rock singer, beat his girlfriend to death... he did 4 or 5 years in prison for that...Phil Spector huge rock producer (he worked with the beatles & many other great names) finished his life in jail for murder...I even read once that there was a rumour about John Lennon having killed a guy when he was touring in Hamburg with the beatles.. Robert Blake, american actor quite famous at his time, has been involved in a murder as well..

@@vajra1171 And the great Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo a near contemporary of Caravaggio murdered his wife and her lover.He pretended to go on a hunting excursion (he was a very wealthy Italian prince)but instead hung around as he suspected his wife was having an affair with a very handsome man and Gesualdo caught them in flagrante delicto (doing it!) and killed both.Gesualdo's music is amazing for those in the know because it has dissonances and things like that in it that didn't appear again in music until the 20th century.Another composer who is supposed to have killed someone -this time the greatest composer Mozart was Antonio Salieri -it's the plot of the famous play and movie "Amadeus."

@@kaloarepo288 didn't know that, thank you...

​​@@kaloarepo288Antonio Salieri is supposed to kill none, that's a ridiculous lie built up by the typically inaccurate hollywood style movie " Amadeus". Not only Salieri did not make any plot , but he also helped Mozart both as teacher for free and as manager getting job to him .

actually, the boy and lizard, the lute player, boy with basket of fruit, the cardsharp, bacchus, and the fortune teller and more are all generally agreed to be of one of caravaggio’s companions and models, Mario Minniti!!

Yes ! I think you're right. Back then there were no cameras, an easy tool that we have the luxury to enjoy these days. His times were very violent , and religion was very much involved in that. Kinda ironic. (A kind God allows vicious mayhem, hmm.) 👍💜🌿🌱

This was absolutely chilling to read, I can't imagine how that felt for you

Good material for a ghost story.

This narrator's vocal attack, in his loud and obnoxious style, is the exact opposite of the profound depth and beauty that is contained in these works of art. He should be an announcer for professional wrestling instead or learn to STFU.

There is no hard Proof on the topic, Same as the existence of “the Soul” (which almost would be necessary for your experience to be “true”) has and will probably Never be Proven. I’m not saying your experiences aren’t true I believe your end of the story 100%. You could do a little experiment yourself actually. For example, use your courage a last time and pick 3, 5 or X amount of artists from a rather hard time in history but make sure you don’t do ANY actual research on them, then proceed to paint their portrait and see what happens, after you have an experience you can recheck if the emotions the painting provoked actually matched some parts of the emotions the painter xy had, but because in that case you didn’t knew before the results would be more precise, just imagine you have this great sense of fear just to then do your research and find out the painter had the best life imaginable for the time and died without pain. If I were to make a hypothesis I would think that the first to you experienced that, you maybe had some sort of anxiety because you knew Caravaggio was brutal and you stared at the painting maybe at night as you stated, everybody was asleep which depending on your personal experiences could maybe be some sort of room for nerves. (Based on the thought that a lot of people fear the dark, fear being alone, often due to childhood trauma often unconnected) the second time and all the following times you had already made your mind up, you could say that “conformation bias”, a healthy phenomenon to basically create the self to some extend has led you to be more likely to proof your own theory, leading to you experiencing the same or similar things over and over. There has been similar projects from people trying to figure out if you could force seeing “ghosts” or “monsters” and the person who tried it actually made it happen. He didn’t sleep for 72h watching horror films over and over again in that period and at the peak of his sleepiness and exhaustion he sat in front of a mirror in the dark only holding a candle in his hand to light up the room, he then stated that a person appeared behind him. To find a reasonable end to this without assuming anything -> the mind is a deep deep sea and it can create all kinds of fun, curiosity but also horror. Greetings

Are there artists whose lives and character you don’t know about? I’m curious how you’d be impacted and if it would match the artists.

Andrew Graham- Dixon is another excellent teacher. They are different, of course, but I love watching them both and learning from them.

At last, idcook, brought out the hidden .....yes...homosexuality...has been forever...why has it always been persecuted ?? Men and women are born and as such...they have to live their lives !!

Bitten by a lizard 🦎 Unexpected shock or fright from ....? Being discovered giving favour to rich men ? The Boy looks like Carravaggio himself

It turns out that I made this comment about a minute too soon. "Matrix moment". Anyway, it's clever that the David and goliath painting is of his young self killing his old self in an apology present to some Cardinal.

It’s more likely a boy prostitute he found at a brothel. That’s where the painters found their models. Many of them are depicted in the most sacred church paintings all around Italy.

Wow. No. That's gross. I think you're way off. It's the same face through- out his entire career. He wold have practiced painting his most available model, himself, A lot. It was also a convenient way of branding a his paintings. Get off the Q wagon. The guy was no saint, and your conclusion is without base.

He was a friend of his - maybe a "boyfriend" - but he knew him for many years - It has been mentioned a lot through the years.

@@MariaHalfevil333 really? It's himself. he doesn't age from the first painting, to the last.

Stephan Reisig Ninny. Blame KZfaq, not the uploader.

Mad, bad and dangerous to know.

There have been a few made - perhaps most notably Derek Jarman's in 1986.

@@asharpmajor6740 Thank You! I recently found a documentary in Amazin Prime called The Soul and The Blood

He was by far not the only one! Not even the first one. But, he was especially dark.

@@04steenCould you name a few others?