Caravaggio

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Caravaggio struggled to live in Rome
for the first five years. According to biographers he was needy and
stripped of every thing. Caravaggio never held a job for more than a
couple of weeks during this time, but when he did, he usually was an
assistant to painter of much less skill. Despite the poverty he worked
under, during this time he created over forty works. These early pictures
"reveal a fresh, direct, and empirical approach; they were apparently
painted directly from life and show almost no trace of the academic
Mannerism then prevailing in Rome. The felicitous tone and confident
craftsmanship of these early works stands in sharp contrast to the daily
quality of Caravaggio's disorderly and dissipated life.(pg. 843,
Britannica)" His hard life would soon come to an end.
In 1595 after years of living in poverty he finally decided to set
out on his own. Soon after this his fortunes took a turn for the better.
He meet a dealer named Maestro Valentino. Valentino took ...

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made him redo it. These priests had never seen such
a representation of a Saint in such an unheavenly manner. The other
scenes of the St. Matthew cycle are no less disconcerting in the realism of
their drama. The Calling of Saint Matthew shows the moment at which two
men and two worlds confront each other: Christ, in a burst of light,
entering the room of the roll collector, and Matthew, intent on counting
coins. The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew captures the moment when the
executioner is forcing his victim to the ground. The scene is a public
street, and as Matthew's acolyte flees in terror, passersby glance at the
act with idle unconcern. An interesting point about these ...

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