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Still, the work displays its own sources. Ribera saw, and was completely bowled over by, the work of Caravaggio, which he must have heard about in Spain though not seen until he got to Rome. This happened around 1610, the year Caravaggio died. It is hardly fanciful to suppose that Ribera, barely 20 years old and full of an expatriate's ambition, was anxious to move into the space only just vacated by this great and still controversial painter...
Other contemporaries, such as Guido Reni and Annibale Carracci, affected him deeply as well; he had worked on their turf, in Parma, before coming to Rome. It was, however, Caravaggio, the tragic realist, with his dramatically articulate figures sculpted by darkness, his appetite for common life and his candor about the apprehensible world, who had blown away the mincing academism of late mannerist art and shown the way forward to a whole generation of younger European painters, of whom Ribera was the most gifted...
However, Fisher says the effort has receivedenthusiastic support from students and staff. Hesays that he is optimistic, but adds, "I partlymade a two-year commitment to indicate I'm notgoing to build Rome...
...just in: a forthcoming edition of the Catholic catechism lists sins never pondered by Moses. Driving a car or piloting a commercial jet while intoxicated, for example. Cheating on your taxes. Dealing drugs. Cooking the company books and committing other types of business fraud. Bill Clinton, take note: in Rome's view, it is still O.K. to make war, if it is a good war, but also to disobey the government when...
...Italian lira found itself under attack too, even though Rome had tried to anticipate traders with a 7% devaluation at the beginning of the week. Italy quickly followed Britain out of the European Monetary System. Meanwhile, the Spanish peseta was devalued by 5%, and Sweden (not a member of the European Community, but exposed to its economic winds) raised its overnight interbank lending rate to a towering 500% in a desperate bid to support the % krona. As the Germans resisted pressure for a further cut in interest rates, the French, Danish and Irish currencies all found themselves struggling...