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Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi, has entered history due to his paintings of dramatic intensity.
He was born on 29 September 1571 Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, a decidedly unusual painter for his time.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was famously sensitive when it came to matters of artistic originality: he threatened both the painter Guido Reni and artist.

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Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio was born on 29 September 1571 in Milan from Fermo Merisi and Lucia Aratori; names that then inspired Manzoni for the drafting of I promise sposi. Due to the plague that rages in Lombardy, the artist and his family move to the town of Caravaggio where little Michelangelo spends his childhood. At thirteen his mother sent him to the shop Simone Peterzano, Mannerist painter and pupil of Tiziano Vecellio, where he remained for a few years. After the death of his mother, the artist decides to move outside the region.

According to various historical sources, he first goes to Venice where he learns the art of Giorgione and Titian and then arrives in Rome in 1597. In the capital, where he remained until July 1607, Caravaggio lived a period full of creativity that inspired him for the creation of extraordinary works, still considered today among the masterpieces of painting of all time. He died in Porto Ercole, in Tuscany, in 1610.

Happy birthday Caravaggio!

For some years now, Caravaggio's birthday has been celebrated on 29

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Caravaggio, Making of a Ballet

Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi, has entered history due to his paintings of dramatic intensity. This ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti aims at picturing in his choreography the specific atmosphere of Il Caravaggio's works.

Caravaggio used to venture the threshold beyond the pale throughout his life. He was admired for his work and particularly the harsh his realism in painting human beings. Due to his passionate personality, he encountered more than several conflicts with people around him, sponsors, and the law. One of his foremost artistic twists was the extreme contrast between brightness and darkness, light and shadow.

Mauro Bigonzetti is one of the leading choreographers of the Italian ballet which freed itself from the predominance of mainly classical opera companies in the 80s. He created his choreographies mainly for the Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia that helped him to fame and worldwide attention. "When I think of Caravaggio, I think of the artist and the human being at the same time. These are the two sides of the human existence that i

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Caravaggio, David with the Head of Goliath, 1610

Existing at the opposite end of the aesthetic spectrum from the effervescent pop art of Mary Heilmann and Brian Wilson (both of whom I featured last week) is the tortured art of Caravaggio, who, among other subject matter, enjoyed depicting severed heads. In "David With the Head of Goliath" the severed head is actually a self-portrait. Maybe Caravaggio was a humanist the way that the punk rockers were: the violence they embraced was not anti-human but a corrective to the peace and love crowd, who in their view denied aspects of existence. Maybe it's just the old Rousseau-Hobbes dichotomy being played out in different times and places. One thing is clear: Caravaggio was conflicted. But unless we are a pure ideologue, we all are too.

Art historian Troy Thomas offers these observations about Caravaggio's painting, touching on the ways that Caravaggio himself was no stranger to violence:

Caravaggio may have created this painting in part as a meditative assessment of his murder of Ranuccio Tomassoni on a Roman Street in 1606,