A thrilling trip into darkness The National Gallery's new show of Caravaggio's late paintings is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, writes Andrew Graham-Dixon

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: February 27, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Michelangelo Merisi, usually known as Caravaggio after his birthplace, a village near Milan, only made one recorded statement about painting during the course of his short and turbulent life. ``In painting,'' he said, ``a man of worth is he who knows how to paint well and imitate natural objects well.'' It is a provocatively brief remark, wrung out of the painter by a tribunal investigating him on charges of criminal libel. Yet it rings true as an expression of the painter's obdurate pride in his Lombard origins.

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