I have visited Italian painter Carvagio in many cities – London, Florence, Rome, Venice, Paris. Now here he is, is returning the trips, my hometown is a guest in Bengaluru, where Mary Magdleen in Parmanand Performance in the national gallery of modern art. Caravagio took the painting with him while running into Naples after killing a person in a tennis court in Rome. It was in the 17th century, but the question, can you separate art from the artist, we continue to bother.
Caravaggio painted people from the streets (harassing people using a prostitute as a model for Virgin Mary). But he is said to have painted the work of Bengaluru (in the way of speaking) from memory; A prostitute, memory of a love affair with Leena. He is imagined with throwing back his head, the hair is loose and the shoulders are exposed, the fingers are held and the lips are divided into ecstasy. A teardrop has started its journey. It reveals himself in response to a revived Christ. It is also a picture of abandonment and disadvantage. Loss of his love of caravagio. In combination with individual and universal, Carvagio explained a way for all art.
What we know about Michael Angelo Mercy’s birth Carvagio comes from the police report and court records of many crimes of the artist, which the French writer Standal called a “A wicked man”. Recently, according to a biographical writer, a decade after his death, a decade-written contemporary-self-serving stories-give us some events. He died at the age of 39, either murdered, or leading to malaria, syphilis, or to lead poisoning from his paint. It has 70 or 89 or 106 paintings in her existence – uncertainty hovers over her life, work and death.
Action painting
Karwagio was born in 1571, seven years after Marlo, Shakespeare and Galileo. He was the first modern painter to create a new world of art, literature and science with his contemporaries.
A chalk picture of Caravagio (about 1621)
He was also the leader of modern cinematography. Director Martin Scorscs has accepted his debt to the artist who selected to portray a moment in the beginning or at the end of an action, but “during the action … it was like a modern staging in a film. It was as if we had just come in the middle of a scene and it was all happening”, as he said.
Caravaggio was his painting. I first saw her at the National Gallery in London Dinner in Mmos Attracts you, so that you become a partner in the tableau. Two disciples have gone to a inn with a person on which they used to be friends on the way. When the stranger blesses and breaks the bread, he suddenly realizes that he is Christ. Carvagio painted that moment of recognition. It looks like a modern picture about the foreboding of one disciple’s external weapons and suddenly getting up in the other’s perspective (photography was not invented for one and two centuries). There is a halo above Christ by light from behind his part. A basket of fruits is going to tip on the edge of the table. One division is eternal to another.
Over the years, I have spent hours sitting before painting. Whenever my wife and I went to London, we jokingly said that our son had the same visit to painting. Our bucket list has a trip to every caravagio on performance. It is a blessing that so many works are in churches, indeed free to see. Sometimes, you dropped a coin in a slot to bring the work to light because some are in the dark niches.
In the Capitalin Museum of Rome, there is an unusual caravagio – later critics called it ‘style painting’ – ProphetWhere a young man is happy to read his palm by a girl. What he does not notice, and we do, what the girl is removing her ring as she does.
Mary Magdleen in Parmanand At the Italian Cultural Center in New Delhi, before visiting Bengaluru. Photo Credit: PTI
Completion of life or work?
Caravagio was unique. According to a biography writer, he had the advantage of not being taught, which meant that he had nothing to do unknown. He had no studio in traditional sense. He did not draw. He never established a workshop with assistants who portrayed boring goods, they had no cycle of students.
Nevertheless, he impressed every artist, who followed. And possibly every audience too. It is impossible to stand outside your canvas and do not feel energy, strength and passion. It kills you with a falling building or charging horse.
Caravaggio Conundrum – How do we weigh an artist’s achievement against his personal wickedness? – Today we bother us because we consider the works of Roman Polesky, Woody Alan, and host others who encouraged the canceled culture. As poet Yets have written: Man’s intellect is forced to choose/ perfection of life, or work …
This is an option to make individuals for themselves.
The painting is displayed in the National Gallery of Modern Art till 6 July.
The author is a prominent journalist and writer.
Published – June 24, 2025 11:01 pm IST
