Caravaggio's deaths.(Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio)

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: Sohm, Philip | Copyright information

Derek Jarman opens his claustrophobic, skyless Caravaggio (1986) with the feverish artist on his shadowy deathbed (Fig. 1). The film pieces together Michelangelo da Caravaggio's life retrospectively, from the vantage point of the dying artist. Death gives structure and meaning to Caravaggio's life. Mortality, for Jarman, explained the essence of his art. When asked why he made the film, Jarman responded obliquely by paraphrasing two early biographies of the artist, by Giovanni Bagl...

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