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Caravaggio's Pitiful Relics (Hardcover)
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Caravaggio's Pitiful Relics (Hardcover)
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The renowned Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
(1571-1610) established his career in Catholic Rome, making
paintings that placed particular importance on sacred relics and
the glorification of martyred saints. Beginning with his early
works, Caravaggio was intensely engaged with the physical world. He
not only interrogated appearances but also experimented with the
paint's material nature. "Caravaggio's Pitiful Relics" explores how
the artist's commitment to materiality served and ultimately
challenged the Counter Reformation church's interests. In his first
ecclesiastical commission, Caravaggio offered an unconventional
representation of martyrdom that collapsed the borders between art,
contemporary religious persecution, iconoclasm, and relics in early
Christian catacombs. Yet his art controversially and eventually led
to a criminal trial. After he had fled from Rome in disgrace, his
major altarpiece depicting the death of the Virgin Mary, portraying
her mortality rather than her sanctity, was removed. Caravaggio's
materiality came into conflict with changing notions of the sacred;
thereafter, the sacred object became a secular work of art, marking
the displacement of the relic.
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