tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post9039039720885527195..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: CaravaggioUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-47547849088117846092010-07-22T18:21:34.115-04:002010-07-22T18:21:34.115-04:00"I expect you'd have done jail time for t..."I expect you'd have done jail time for throwing cold water on St. Teresa."<br /><br />And rightly so.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-9898678361498972592010-07-22T17:48:03.450-04:002010-07-22T17:48:03.450-04:00Yes, Teresa d'Avila was "multi-tranverbar...Yes, Teresa d'Avila was "multi-tranverbarationic" wasn't she? ;-pJCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-360991938053643582010-07-22T17:21:10.444-04:002010-07-22T17:21:10.444-04:00I expect you'd have done jail time for throwin...I expect you'd have done jail time for throwing cold water on St. Teresa.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-70611542282893854762010-07-22T07:53:49.556-04:002010-07-22T07:53:49.556-04:00No, never saw the film. I understand that Ian McK...No, never saw the film. I understand that Ian McKellan played the role of Cardinal del Monte.<br /><br />Incarnated warts and all is also very true.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-5668438251770701882010-07-22T07:48:30.537-04:002010-07-22T07:48:30.537-04:00BTW did you see the film?
Sometime in the 1980ie...BTW did you see the film? <br /><br />Sometime in the 1980ies, by this famous Englishman...Göran Koch-Swahnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925549945659350649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-36851215183917310792010-07-22T07:47:26.652-04:002010-07-22T07:47:26.652-04:00Incarnated, warts and all...Incarnated, warts and all...Göran Koch-Swahnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925549945659350649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-51040114615961188432010-07-22T06:43:12.099-04:002010-07-22T06:43:12.099-04:00"Incarnation" is exactly right.
I saw t..."Incarnation" is exactly right.<br /><br />I saw the Bernini sculpture 20 years ago, and my first reaction was to throw a bucket of cold water on it (I didn't of course).cCounterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-29080155378284352662010-07-21T21:09:33.154-04:002010-07-21T21:09:33.154-04:00Counterlight, I saved this post for when I had tim...Counterlight, I saved this post for when I had time. You knew I'd come, didn't you? I couldn't resist a <i>tour de force</i> on an artist high on my list of favorites.<br /><br />All through looking at the paintings and reading your commentary, I thought, "Incarnation. Incarnation." That's one of Caravaggio's great gifts to us in religious painting.<br /><br />Before you mentioned Rembrandt, another of my favorites, it occurred to me that the two artists use light and shadow in a similar manner. I did not know that Rembrandt was influenced by Caravaggio, but it makes great good sense, now that I know. The interplay of light and shade in the two artists' paintings is sheer genius, and seeing their paintings in the flesh, so to speak, takes my breath away every time.<br /><br />That Bernini admired Caravaggio is no surprise. The sculptor's depiction of "St. Teresa in Ecstasy" carries a powerful erotic charge. Of course, you know the other name for the sculpture - "St. Teresa in Orgasm".<br /><br />Thank you. What a gift!June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-77856180303206402452010-07-21T01:53:20.274-04:002010-07-21T01:53:20.274-04:00I would like to spend a summer at your feet doing ...I would like to spend a summer at your feet doing the Great Galleries of Europe. <br /><br />At least one of my degrees is in literature, so I'm not a total techie, but you make the art come alive as a representation of all the great intellectual movements of its time. I wish I'd had "time" for so much morein college. Education is wasted on the young.<br /><br />Thank you Doug.IThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09605163506396013904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-30246065676150491732010-07-21T00:52:17.206-04:002010-07-21T00:52:17.206-04:00Four hundred years ago on July 18th, 1610... his h...<i>Four hundred years ago on July 18th, 1610... his hometown in Lombardy</i><br /><br />Ah: for this worthy anniversary, we interrupt our tribute to <i>Firenze!</i><br /><br />Caravaggio doesn't do much for me as a <i>religious</i> artist (few Western artists after Giotto---or until Dali!---do).<br /><br />But just for technique and eroticism, I can certainly {ahem} "admire the brush strokes"! ;-) Thanks Doug.JCFnoreply@blogger.com