Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy @ LACMA

Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy, on exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art  (LACMA) until February 10, 2013,  introduces the work of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), one of the most popular artists of the past, rivaling in fame both Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. The stories of Caravaggio’s life are legend, more myth than history, describing traits of personality, including passion and brutality, that came to describe the unique qualities of his work. The exhibition, made up of 56 works in all, including a record eight works by Caravaggio himself, covers the evolution of his style. Caravaggio’s legacy is expressed in work by about twenty artists from Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands who carried into the late 17th century the strangeness, beauty and raw emotion of his work. Read more . . .

Caravaggio, Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Caravaggio, Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness