Word: caravaggio
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...Mamma's Boy. An accomplished pianist, art dealer and amateur historian, Hanfstaengl looked down his cultural nose at Hitler. Not only did the man resemble a suburban barber on his day off; he could not tell a Caravaggio from a Michelangelo. Worse, he seldom paid his debts, loved to stuff himself with pastry and whipped cream, sat delightedly through three showings of King Kong. Hitler, says Putzi contemptuously, was a Muttersöhnchen (mamma's boy) whose impotence may have been caused by syphilis and who resented all those who could enjoy normal sexual relations...
Georges de La Tour (1593-1652) was a leading painter (and father of ten children) in the prosperous town of Luneville in the French duchy of Lorraine. Historians guess that La Tour went to Rome as a young man, learned there the technique of Caravaggio's dramatically spotlighted paintings. Back home he refined his work to make light itself not only a dramatic highlight but the modeling element and dramatic center of his painting...
...interested to note in the caption for the Caravaggio Lute Player, reproduced among the Hermitage treasures, that TIME [Feb. 4] labels the subject a "Roman girl...
...will look at other Caravaggios, notably The Musicians recently acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan [see cut], you will see the same model reproduced in epicene triplicate, and undeniably recognizable as one of the Roman street boys that Caravaggio delighted to paint in languid poses...
Copley had invented Romantic horror-painting, but he never followed up his invention. That remained for Frenchman Theodore Gericault, whose Raft of the Medusa (see color) came 40 years later. Critics have made much of what Gericault owed to Michelangelo and Caravaggio, have tended to overlook his connection with Copley. Yet the similarity of composition (a pyramid tilted toward the horizon) and especially of spirit argues for Gericault's having known Copley's picture. Splendid though they are. both Copley's and Gericault's men-against-the-sea-scapes seem as dated today as they once...