Rapture: On a painting by Caravaggio.
Arlea| N° d'inventaire | 29661 |
| Format | 12 x 20.5 |
| Détails | 144 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782363083517 |
Rapture is an invitation to travel. A woman goes to Rome to see again, in the Doria Pamphilj Gallery, a painting by Caravaggio that she values above all else: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt .
This journey, of which Stendhal will often be the guide, offers him the opportunity to ask many questions, as much about the troubled and sensual art of Caravaggio, about his mysterious and violent life, as about our gaze and our way of looking.
In a Renaissance which marked a renewal of the pictorial genre, Caravaggio shook up conventions, had men and women (sometimes of ill repute) pose to represent his Virgins and Child, saints and angels, and introduced a new breath of fresh air into religious representations.
Any admiration of a masterpiece is a rebus of what has been experienced.
Rapture is an invitation to travel. A woman goes to Rome to see again, in the Doria Pamphilj Gallery, a painting by Caravaggio that she values above all else: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt .
This journey, of which Stendhal will often be the guide, offers him the opportunity to ask many questions, as much about the troubled and sensual art of Caravaggio, about his mysterious and violent life, as about our gaze and our way of looking.
In a Renaissance which marked a renewal of the pictorial genre, Caravaggio shook up conventions, had men and women (sometimes of ill repute) pose to represent his Virgins and Child, saints and angels, and introduced a new breath of fresh air into religious representations.
Any admiration of a masterpiece is a rebus of what has been experienced.