Caravaggio in Malta

[jon_riley]

I am currently doing some research on the time that Caravaggio spent for my PhD thesis.
I wondered if anybody would be able to help by telling me where I can find the resources to help me in my quest.

Jon Riley

[Old Florida]

[Hi jon, Welcome to Wet Canvas. If you need data for your dissertation, I don't recommend using anecdotal suggestions offered by anonymous contributors on the internet. Your university library is the first resource to exhaust. Any useful reference not held there can be obtained on loan for you. The chair of your committee would probably be very pleased to have you go to Malta and/or search other appropriate archives for contemporary documents and see meaningful extracts translated by you from the originals. That is what we academicians expect from Ph.D. candidates in this country. Good luck. Cheers, Old Florida

[Jill Avalon]

There is a biography out there entitled "The Man Called Caravaggio" that I saw in Crown Books in San Dimas. I am fascinated with his use of light and shadows with regards to the human form. Hope this helps Jon_Riley.

Take care,

Jill

[Richard Bingham]

For a different perspective on Caravaggio, you might look at a copy of "M-The Man Who Became Caravaggio" by an Australian living in Italy. He promises "new" insight into his death and disappearance, but in reality, he pads his book with much historical anecdote meant to amplify understanding of Caravaggio's time and place, and ends up in wild speculation based on the very few facts known about the man. You have picked a really tough subject, there is practically zilch on Michaelangelo Merisi, and much of the "source" information was set down long after his death by people who had motives for detracting from him. That he was a disturbed and extremely difficult personality is as evident from the few things known about him as the fact that he was a revolutionary painter in his time, and a craftsman of the first order.

[artwoman1]

UOTE]Originally posted by Richard Bingham:
For a different perspective on Caravaggio, you might look at a copy of "M-The Man Who Became Caravaggio" by an Australian living in Italy. He promises "new" insight into his death and disappearance, but in reality, he pads his book with much historical anecdote meant to amplify understanding of Caravaggio's time and place, and ends up in wild speculation based on the very few facts known about the man. You have picked a really tough subject, there is practically zilch on Michaelangelo Merisi, and much of the "source" information was set down long after his death by people who had motives for detracting from him. That he was a disturbed and extremely difficult personality is as evident from the few things known about him as the fact that he was a revolutionary painter in his time, and a craftsman of the first order.[/QUOTE][Q
Right on Richard. I just finished reading this book an I agree on its speculative character. But I did get a lot out of the description of the tenor of the times and how truly dangerous it was to anything down for fear it could be used against you. If you had any property you could be denounced just to have it confiscated upon your conviction and a denouncement was tantamount to a conviction. And we thought totalitarianism was a modern concept.
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