caravaggio

Two great examples from art are Michelangelo (look at the women) and Caravaggio (look carefully at anything).

The last time it was Caravaggio using mercury salt and a pinhole camera setup.

If Caravaggio had had a computer with Photoshop, if Eintein had had a computer with Matlab, would they have been more productive?

There's a very big difference between what _why did and your Caravaggio example.

At least there's always Caravaggio to make things interesting for the modern audience.

It's like asking, why they don't paint like Caravaggio or sculpt like Michelangelo.

But going on technique alone, why would I spend time with Caravaggio over Dali, over Turner, over Hokkaido etc.

I can quite easily marvel at the raw technique of a Caravaggio painting.

A museum isn't to sell works, because it isn't to follow present trends (you might want to find out how praised was Caravaggio in the XIXth Century, or Georges de La Tour around the same time).

Many human creations which we value as a culture were by outspoken and sometimes abusive people - Gill Sans, Francis Bacon, Picasso, Lewis Carroll, Wagner, Caravaggio etc.

(And, hey, I love Caravaggio...) The critics would have you believe that Caravaggio was a godlike draftsman who cold realistically paint the veins on people's eyelids but couldn't put their arms in the right position with respect to their bodies.

Say: - Wagner was viciously antisemitic; the music is still the music - Caravaggio was violent, possibly a murderer, yet painted some of the most incredible art pieces - Heidegger was a Nazi sympathizer yet produced genuinely influential philosophy People are complex creatures, sometimes we need to decouple the evaluation of the contribution from the evaluation of the person.

Yep and it can't be simply a coincidence that "Caravaggio" contains all the letters in "AI" in the exact correct order.

"run far, far away from ones that do." Like Picasso, Dali, Caravaggio and Michelangelo?

Just because a dick of a person produces great art doesn't mean that we hand-wave away all their misdeeds with nebulous phrases like, "You just don't understand his art." What if Caravaggio decided to pull a _why?

So like, a high resolution image of a Caravaggio is still usable as public domain.[0] I'm pretty sure the Vatican's got to "ruin" the images with a watermark or anyone would be able to use them as is for whatever they want.

I mean, this is part of the story of Caravaggio, right?

Works of the great masters, Caravaggio, da Vinci (Mona Lisa), et al, are nowadays still in reasonable to good condition.

Then you've got Stravinsky, Van Gogh, Caravaggio, James Joyce; all who displayed perfect 'classical' techniques before doing their own thing.