Word: masaccio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seicento equivalent, perhaps, of our "postmodern" cult of irony--Caravaggio's work proposed a return to the concrete, the tangible, the vernacular and the sincere. For all the theater and guignol in his work, Caravaggio had far more in common with the great solidifiers of the Renaissance, from Masaccio to Michelangelo, than with the euphuistic wreathings of late mannerism. He reclaimed the human figure, moving in deep space in all its pathos and grandeur, as the basic unit of art--the one that provokes the strongest plastic feelings by mobilizing our sense of our own bodies. He freed it from...