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The life of Caravaggio
and the art of Caravaggio
overlap.
It's not possible
to understand Caravaggio's art
if you don't understand his life.
You understand Caravaggio's life
by looking at his works.
It would seem that he always
lived a fairly solitary life
a bohemian life.
He frequented the various taverns.
He went around with a sword,
he liked to party.
As far as family is concerned
he never married
and had no children.
Some documents reveal that
he did have male lovers though.
These are quite sporadic testimonies
but they certainly suggest a scenario,
where it’s possible that he
had lovers that were also male.
Caravaggio reproduced on the canvas
an image he knew well.
An image of a tavern,
of players playing cards
and cheating at cards.
The important thing
is that this painting represents
the condemnation of the card game.
It depicts a young man
being cheated by the cardsharps.
And he shows all this
with the typical light
of his early artistic years.
In those early years, Caravaggio
made very colourful
very bright paintings.
Caravaggio's light is a particular light.
It clearly has various meanings,
it represents precisely the light
that illuminates the scene
in a theatrical way.
But it also represents
the light of God who redeems.
And light represents
Caravaggio's ally.
Caravaggio embraced light like a friend.
Light allowed him to
remove the dark,
to eliminate the dark.
To show the things that happen in the dark.
The dark is like a presence,
that he felt inside him
He knew he was a great artist
but also a great sinner.
The shadow and the darkness
increasingly dominate the light.
The other formal aspect
which has a great impact on the work
is that the stool the saint is sitting on
is falling towards the spectator.
It is as if the Church
and the message of the Church
was literally falling into the faithfuls.
And the faithfuls found themselves invested
in the strength of religion,
in this case, of the Catholic Church.
Making them participate
in this story of Saint Matthew
This is a reading, in my opinion,
is what Caravaggio wanted to convey.
The saint, and therefore the Church,
are engaging and involving the viewer.
Around 1604,
Caravaggio paints for a church in Rome,
the Deposition
You can see how Caravaggio is clearly
inspired by classicism.
This work at first glance
almost looks like a sculpture.
We see a Christ that is truly dead,
that is heavy,
and not just in spirit.
The person who supports him
is struggling
and needs help from another.
They struggle to support this weight
that is lowered into the grave
like a kind of freight elevator
because there is that slab of stone
on which they are standing
which seems to be descending
into the grave.
It's both very realistic
and very significant.
Caravaggio is representing here the fact,
the important fact,
the human fact,
the tangible human fact of death.
The Death of the Virgin
is an extraordinary work
It has been called the most religious
painting of the seventeenth century.
Caravaggio made this painting
in Rome just before
he had to flee for his life.
She is clearly a dead woman.
Some have suggested he modelled her
after a drowned woman
pulled from a river.
The work is extraordinary
because of the set he constructs,
he adds characters,
but there are two figures
that are peculiar and memorable.
One is Mary Magdalene
who is in the foreground
crying desperately.
She is distraught
in the face of death.
She is not shown as happy that the Virgin Mary
has died and is on her way to heaven
I believe Caravaggio
has put his mother in that image,
as he saw her on her deathbed.
He paints this with love.
So when the painting was rejected
it was a very heavy blow.
This may have contributed, in my opinion,
to his agitation that then led him
a few months later
to murder.
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula
is a truly exceptional painting
and probably his last.
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula,
is a painting that
fortunately we rediscovered
only a few years ago
The framing
is particularly cinematic or photographic.
Because what do you see?
You see the archer killing Saint Ursula
from very close range.
They are almost touching one another.
He shoots the arrow, she receives it
The killer and the one killed.
Caravaggio also puts himself in the picture,
even if it’s unrealistic,
watching this murder.
Perhaps as a witness
and also perhaps as the victim.
Certainly Caravaggio
is a modern painter
The essence of Caravaggio's art,
the central thing is truth.
Caravaggio
was a great painter
when he was alive.
He was then imitated
praised by young painters
who saw his new way of painting
that broke with the painting style of the time
and therefore had many followers.