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    • Title: The Crowning with Thorns;

    Painted by: Caravaggio;

    Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria;

    Dimensions: 64.96 inch wide x 50.00 inch high;


    The Vienna Crowning with Thorns is a painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Executed probably in 1607, it is now located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

    According to Caravaggio's biographer Giovanni Bellori a Crowning with Thorns was made for Caravaggio's patron Vincenzo Giustiniani, and this painting can be traced convincingly to the Giustiniani collection.



    An attribution to Giustiniani would place it in the period prior to 1606, when Caravaggio fled Rome, but Peter Robb dates it to 1607, when the artist was in Naples.

    Caravaggio's patron Vincenzo Giustiniani was an intellectual as well as a collector, and late in life he wrote a paper about art, identifying twelve grades of accomplishment. In the highest class he put just two names, Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci, as artists capable of combining realism and style in the most accomplished manner.

    This Crowning with Thorns illustrates what Giustiniani meant: the cruelty of the two torturers is depicted with acutely observed reality as they hammer home the thorns, as is the bored slouch of the official leaning on the rail as he oversees the death of God.

    While Christ, despite what Robb says, is suffering real pain with patient endurance; all depicted within a classical composition of contrasting and intersecting horizontals and diagonals.



    The theme of pain and sadism is certainly central to the work. John Gash points to the way the two torturers ram the crown down with the butts of their staffs, "a rhythmic and sadistic hammering".

    Robb mentions that the painting is about "how ... to give pain and feel pain, and how close pain and pleasure sometimes were, how voluptuous suffering could be on a golden afternoon".




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    Did Caravaggio fight as a soldier in Hungary before going to Rome? Here's what we know

    by Redazione , published on 16/12/2020
    Categories: Debunking / Disclaimer

    An interview by Alberto Angela in which the popular popularizer stated that Caravaggio's difficult character was due to his possible past as a soldier, fighting in the war, has caused much discussion. But what exactly do we know? We asked art historian Rossella Vodret.

    There is a gap of at least four years in the life of Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi; Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610): we do not know where he was and what he did between the last months of 1592 (the year to which the last known evidence of his presence in Lombardy dates) and 1596, when he is instead documented in Rome. In recent years a peculiar hypothesis has begun to circulate, according to which Caravaggio fought as a soldier during this time. It is an idea that has been, to some extent, cleared by the popular popularizer Alberto Angela, who made it known through an interview he gave to the TV magazine , Sorrisi & Canzoni, where, however, the hypothesis was presented in very romanticized tones.

    “There are times when no one knew where he was,” Angela declared. “And perhaps one of these is allorigin to his violent nature: it seems he went for a few years to fight as a mercenary, developing on his return the ’Rambo syndrome,’ that of veterans who can no longer fit into society. This would also explain his skill with weapons.” Rambo syndromes aside, this is an idea that Caravaggio scholars are working on: art historian and Caravaggio specialist Rossella Vodret, among others, discusses it in one of her latest works, the book Luoghi e misteri di Caravaggio written together with Paolo Jorio and published by Cairo in 2018 (a review of the volume, written by Michele Cuppone, can be found on Finestre sull’Arte ).

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    • The Entombment of Christ (Caravaggio)

    Painting by Caravaggio

    The Entombment of Christ
    ArtistCaravaggio
    Year1603–1604
    MediumOil on canvas
    Dimensions300 cm × 203 cm (120 in × 80 in)
    LocationPinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City

    Caravaggio created one of his most admired altarpieces, The Entombment of Christ, in 1603–1604 for the second chapel on the right in Santa Maria in Vallicella (the Chiesa Nuova), a church built for the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri. A copy of the painting is now in the chapel, and the original is in the Vatican Pinacoteca. The painting has been copied by artists as diverse as Rubens,Fragonard, Géricault and Cézanne.

    History

    On 11 July 1575, Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585) issued a bull confirming the formation of a new society called the Oratory and granting it the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella. Two months after the bull, the rebuilding of the church commenced. Envisaged in the planned reconstruction of the Chiesa Nuova (new church), as it became known, was the dedication of all the altars to the mysteries of the Virgin. Starting in the left transept and continuing around the five chapels on either side of the nave to the right transept, the altars are dedicated to the Presentation of the Temple, the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Circumcision, the Crucifixion, the Pietà, the Resurrection, the Ascension, the Descent of the Holy Ghost, the Assumption and the Coronation.

    The Entombment was probably planned and begun in 1602/03. The chapel in which the Entombment was to be hung, was dedicated to the Pietà, and was founded by Pietro Vittrice, a friend of Pope Gregory XIII and close follower of Filippo Neri. The Capella della Pietà occupied a 'privileged' position in the Chiesa Nuova: Mass could be celebrated from it and it w

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    The Deposition, considered one of Caravaggio's greatest masterpieces, was commissioned by Girolamo Vittrice for his family chapel in S. Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova) in Rome. In 1797 it was included in the group of works transferred to Paris in execution of the Treaty of Tolentino. After its return in 1817 it became part of Pius VII's Pinacoteca.
    Caravaggio did not really portray the Burial or the Deposition in the traditional way, inasmuch as Christ is not shown at the moment when he is laid in the tomb, but rather when, in the presence of the holy women, he is laid by Nicodemus and John on the Anointing Stone, that is the stone with which the sepulchre will be closed. Around the body of Christ are the Virgin, Mary Magdalene, John, Nicodemus and Mary of Cleophas, who raises her arms and eyes to heaven in a gesture of high dramatic tension.
    Caravaggio, who arrived in Rome in 1592, was the protagonist of a real artistic revolution as regards the way of treating subjects and the use of colour and light, and was certainly the most important personage of the "realist" trend of seventeenth century painting.