The year 2024 has been a prime year for exhibitions about Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the artist who revolutionized painting in the years just before and after 1600, ushering the Baroque era.  The exhibitions of 2024 build on new scholarly theories which speculate about how Caravaggio achieved some of his painterly effects and how he brought the look and feel of contemporary life into his paintings, even of Biblical subjects.  The lecture will point out the few late Renaissance painters whose works may have suggested possibilities to the young painter.  Even Rembrandt and Georges de la Tour owed their candlelit scenes to Caravaggio's dramatic use of light and shadow.

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SPEAKER:  LAURA MUELLER

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