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The Rebel Artist - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Caravaggio (1571 - 1610) was a leading Italian painter famous for the severe realism of his religious paintings. He broke from the Renaissance style of art and instead worked with live artist's models and portrayed commoners in his art. Absolutely scandalous! He was a violent man - a murderer, a rule breaker, a troublemaker, a homosexual. No surprise that he was not popular with those who mattered - the high class. Yet they did commission him for works of art only to reject them for not obeying propriety. During his lifetime his paintings did prove to be in demand with certain collectors. For that we may be thankful for after his death at a young age he was ignored for centuries. In the 20th century he became recognized for the groundbreaker that he was. His works are even considered as the beginning of modern art. In my mind it appears that he lived the life of a rock star - "Live fast, die young." Rock on.
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Mischka

@scifi72, thanks! I follow so many good folks that I'm getting over 100 Notifications a day, and some of them slip past me.

You and I are already good friends. :-)

@eagleboi - Good morning and thank you! I am a small part Native American myself.

eagleboi

Yes scifi72 is good friend and more, I connected to follow you on his recommendations. Though I usually sole ships, trains and cultural art I post many 1st Nation photos (Native American) from the 1800's forward and some recent day pow wows if those interest you. I love food and have solved a few so far that you have availed to us and I thank you for arousing my tummy.

scifi72

@Mischka, I have followed you from the get-go when I first solved your puzzles and we exchanged comments. Do I not appear in your list of Followed Users? I've been looking for your comments on some of my other puzzles but no-go. I just posted a new puzzle, David and Goliath by Caravaggio. Please solve and comment. We gotta connect. @eagleboi, look for my new puzzle too. Jigidi community, you are so gracious and welcoming. I am glad I am here.

Mischka

@scifi72, Caravaggio is my favorite painter of that era! Both in his life and in his art (though I wish his life had lasted longer; who knows what subjects he would have taken on at 60?

Of his many spectacular works, my favorite is probably "The Conversion on the Way to Damascus," because it has so many factors in it - the sublime, the man on the ground; the earthly symbol of the horse, a symbol of power, while he is receiving a power from beyond; the private life (his servant is there, to see him fall, but prevents the horse from harming him) vs. the public life Saul is about to enter.

And what you say about the recovery of his reputation reminds me of Lord Byron, Shelley, and Keats. In their time, Byron was praised most - because he was a lord! - and fans "in the know," those who were interested in free love, etc. - followed Shelley.

Frankly, I think Mary's "Frankenstein" would have been far better if Percy had left his grubbing paws off of it! But no, he had to slow it down to near un-read-ability with his travelogues and the sublimity of the Alps!

But Keats was the best, and is recognized as such by now. Of course, I can quote some of Shelley (nearly nothing by Byron), and nearly everything by Keats. My Master's Degree was two-pronged: the Romantic era, with all these guys, and Jane Austen, and "The Monk"; and the 20th century of postmodernism and science fiction. I felt that the earlier fed into the later. Certainly a lot of early SF was characterized by Gothic imagery.

I've signed on to "Follow" you, my friend. I like the looks of your puzzles. If you wish, click on my name, Mischka, which will bring you to my profile, and just click "Follow." If I'm being pushy, you can ignore me! I won't be hurt.

I have only a few SF friends here, and probably none who could tell you what the Lambda Awards are for. So we might be friends.

MarinaNephele

Nice sketch of the artist. TFS. Marina.

eagleboi

Thank you scifi72, good puzzle.

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