Maddalena addolorata di caravaggio biography
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Maddalena addolorata di caravaggio biography
Caravaggio, Lena and Maddalena Antognetti. A history to be rewritten*
FRANCESCA CURTI and ORIETTA VERDI
Introduction
No painter in the last and this century has attracted as much attention as Caravaggio, no one like him has been able to draw the modern viewer, more or less cultured, more or less expert, into his paintings, his compositions, his contrasts of light and shade.
Undoubtedly his character and dramatic biography have played a role in bringing a character so distant from our world closer to our current way of thinking. However, as Claudio Strinati has brilliantly intuited, the contemporary attraction to Caravaggio lies in his ability to have made art a form of communication in the modern sense, to have allowed anyone, through «l’arma della dimensione autobiografica», to have access to aesthetic experience in a democratic manner.
After the rediscovery of Caravaggio at the beginning of the 20th century by Lionello Venturi and Roberto Longhi, interest in the Lombard pai