Word: caracciolo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handwriting of a painter more and more possessed by death. Caravaggio's sense of mortality was the thing his imitators found hardest to copy. But this did not stop the spread of Caravaggism. Within a decade of his death his followers had diffused his message all over Europe: Caracciolo and Ribera in Naples, Georges de La Tour and Valentin de Boulogne in France, Seghers and Honthorst in The Netherlands, and dozens of others inside and outside Italy...
...very surprising to learn that Ribera and two painter friends (Battistello Caracciolo and Corenzio) ran what amounted to an artists' Mafia in Naples, grabbing the commissions for themselves and frightening rivals with bloodcurdling threats. Poor Domenichino, the Bolognese master who had been invited to decorate the chapel of St. Gennaro in Naples' cathedral, rushed back to Rome in a state of collapse after hearing from this cabal. Grand Guignol abounded, especially in details like the amputated hand in the foreground of Massimo Stanzione's Massacre of the Innocents, which seems ready to scuttle away, like a pink...
Many Santas take pride in their individual in-store or on-street technique When Caracciolo gets a tough gift request, he says he tries to avoid raising any hopes. "But you want to simultaneously nudge the parents if it seems to be within their means," he adds...
...Anthony Caracciolo, who works the 3-to-7 shift on Jordan Marsh's fifth floor, says he tried to bluff the first time he heard that question. "Now it's easier just to say you and the other Santas are Santa's helpers," he explains. A 63-year-old retired civil servant in his rookie season in the red uniform. Caracciolo says, "Being a Santa is one of the things I have always wanted to do in my life. I'm getting paid $4.50 an hour, but I'd gladly...